Theft

Posted by Matt Cipriano | 3 Comments

When it happens with New York Magazine, well, I don’t mind, ’cause, really, who reads New York Magazine?

When it happens with the New York Times, that’s a different story.

Buying into the Green Movement is an article that discusses how just because a product is labeled ‘green’ or ‘organic’ doesn’t necessarily make it better for the environment. Organic Raspberries flown in from Chili in the middle of winter are not helping the environment, the answer, according to the Times, is not eating raspberries in winter.

Oddly, the NY Times, even after cribbing my examples of Whole Foods, Home Depot and every other company jumping on the bandwagon still manages to misstate facts that it published itself: The article states that customers can “browse among the 60,000 products available under Home Depot’s new Eco-Options program.” In the article the published on June 25th (which I wrote about here), they state that companies submitted 60,000 products to be considered for the Eco-Options line, and that of those only 2,500 were selected (and they are looking for a total of about 6,000 products for the Eco-Options program). I mean, if you can’t be bothered to read your own paper….

Of our regular 300 readers, clearly most of them are working for major news outlets. Since I made it popular to rant on the misleading nature of the green movement and the misguided attempts at producing ‘Green’ products (Lexus’s Hybrid only ges 22 miles to the gallon), that seems to be the new movement in papers and on the news.

I mean, I know I am a nobody, but at least give me some credit for the ideas of mine you are stealing, just because you’re a major news organization doesn’t give you the right to steal my ideas.

For the record, American Madness operates with a green mentality, I don’t buy a paper edition of the periodicals I read, I view them all online.

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