Blogger loses Times of Malta spot over FT plagiarism

The blogger and Independent on Sunday columnist Jacques Rene Zammit outlined the artless copy-and-paste job in his blog Akkuza where he showed how Alamango’s blog, Global markets – a ‘toxic cocktail [blog removed] was “uncannily similar to an article in the Financial Times by Gillian Tett (Eurozone crisis resembles US turmoil in 2008).”

Alamango’s blog was removed almost immediately after, as Zammit posted in his blog later on in the day.

“You think it is a coincidence? nah. The whole story on the FT is a series of bullets and all Nikita does is paraphrase the whole shebang, thesaurus in hand to replace words like ‘wobble’ with ‘quiver’…” Zammit wrote in his first blogpost.

Alamango is a member of the Labour national executive, the international secretary of the Labour youth forum, and the dpeuty secretary-general of the National Youth Council.