# Onion Sues Reuters For Plagiarism
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-sues-reuters-for-plagiarism/319897
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 3, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-sues-reuters-for-plagiarism/319897 "2005-09-03T15:53:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Foaming\_Cleanser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foaming_Cleanser)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-sues-reuters-for-plagiarism/319897/1 "2005-09-03T15:53:23Z")
[Reuters:](http://today.reuters.com/News/News.aspx)
Music industry in disarray after the storm
Market to get clues to Katrina’s impact
Health crisis grips New Orleans even as help lands
Katrina donations soar, but some food stocks thin
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### Author:  [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-sues-reuters-for-plagiarism/319897/2 "2005-09-03T16:02:21Z")
Eh? Care to run that by me again?
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-sues-reuters-for-plagiarism/319897/3 "2005-09-03T16:09:43Z")
I would guess that somehow the order of headlines on the Reuters page suggested to the OP that their priorities were comically misplaced, but since the arrangement of the page has since been updated, this no longer applies.
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-sues-reuters-for-plagiarism/319897/4 "2005-09-03T16:09:52Z")
Prolly something along the lines of, “I find several of Reuters’ real-life headlines just now to be imitative of the Onion’s own peculiar brand of humor, such that I hereby propose ironically that the Onion should sue Reuters for plagiarism.”
It’s only Onion-ish if you read the headlines a certain way. Otherwise, it really ain’t that funny.
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> NEW YORK (Billboard) - As flood waters rose in the days after Hurricane Katrina’s August 29 rampage through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, so too did concern for the myriad musicians, business associates, friends and family in the region.
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> The scope of the loss and tragedy Katrina caused is clear: It will be years before a locale renowned for its entertainment industry is back to business as usual – if it ever is again…
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> …But it was not just well-known musicians who were missing or displaced. The Gulf Coast, and in particular the New Orleans region, is also home to a thriving community of local musicians who make a living playing jazz, zydeco and Cajun music, especially for tourists.
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> “I just can’t get ahold of anyone,” said Jonno Frishberg, a 45-year-old fiddler who earns his livelihood playing Cajun music gigs. “You’re talking about a whole community of musicians like me, with no unemployment insurance and no way to make a living.” Frishberg and his wife and two children are all safe. “If I didn’t have kids, I’d be looking to head far away from here,” he says. “I’ll still have to go on the road to make a living. I’m just looking for a way to feed my family.”…
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### Author:  [@Foaming\_Cleanser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foaming_Cleanser)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-sues-reuters-for-plagiarism/319897/5 "2005-09-03T16:19:29Z")
I’m slamming Reuters, not making light of the hell that is New Orleans. These headline writers sound like PR-flack spindoctors who haven’t read a newspaper or turned on a radio or TV in a month. What’s next? Water Doesn’t Dampen New Orleans Spirit?
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-sues-reuters-for-plagiarism/319897/6 "2005-09-03T16:47:12Z")
Well, aside from the merest hint of a pun in “food stucks thin”, and it has to be forced, none of those headlines strike me as unusual. Certainly the Onion didn’t originate the style of multi-word headlines.
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-sues-reuters-for-plagiarism/319897/7 "2005-09-03T16:51:15Z")
All’s fair. After all, [The Onion](http://www.theonion.com) plagarized [me](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5996112&postcount=27).
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