{"id":380,"date":"2003-09-09T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2003-09-09T17:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2003\/09\/ripped_off\/"},"modified":"2003-09-09T10:39:01","modified_gmt":"2003-09-09T17:39:01","slug":"ripped_off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2003\/09\/ripped_off.html","title":{"rendered":"RIPPED OFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The nerve of them! First <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/living\/t-p\/index.ssf?\/base\/living-1\/106308516647290.xml\"><FONT\ncolor=#003399><EM><STRONG>People magazine steals an<br \/>\nidea<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> from a lowly New Orleans author. Or so he alleges. And<br \/>\nnow Star magazine steals an idea from lowly me. Or so I allege. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Thanks to <A href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=45\"><FONT\ncolor=#003399><EM><STRONG>Jim Romenesko on<br \/>\nPoynter.com<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>, I learned that Abram Shalom Himelstein sent<br \/>\nPeople a review copy of his book, &#8220;What the Hell Am I Doing Here? The 100 T-Shirt Project,&#8221;<br \/>\nbased on his idea of having people get things off their chests by<A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/living\/t-p\/index.ssf?\/base\/living-1\/106075417511180.xml\"><FONT\ncolor=#003399><EM><STRONG> writing their feelings on blank<br \/>\nT-shirts<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>. The next thing he knew the magazine ran a spread<br \/>\ncalled &#8220;Tee Speech&#8221; that said: &#8220;We asked celebs to tell us what their shirts would say if they let<br \/>\ntheir tees do the talking.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Now <A href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/business\/story\/115941p-104589c.html\n\"><FONT color=#003399><EM><STRONG>Paul Colford reports in the New York Daily<br \/>\nNews<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> that The Star has substituted the words &#8220;All the Juice,<br \/>\nAll the Time&#8221; on its nameplate for &#8220;The #1 Celebrity News Magazine.&#8221; Well, gee whiz! As the<br \/>\nformer&nbsp;creator of <A href=\"http:\/\/stacks.msnbc.com\/news\/743584.asp\"><FONT\ncolor=#003399><EM><STRONG>The Juice<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> on<br \/>\nMSNBC.com, I protest. Can you feel my anguish? Did I write what was MSNBC&#8217;s most popular<br \/>\ndaily Weblog\/column&nbsp;&#8212; now defunct, it drew&nbsp;an average of&nbsp;750,000 page<br \/>\nviews per month &#8212;&nbsp;just to be ripped off by tab-queen Bonnie Fuller? Anyone have a spare<br \/>\nT-shirt?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nerve of them! First People magazine steals an idea from a lowly New Orleans author. Or so he alleges. And now Star magazine steals an idea from lowly me. Or so I allege. 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