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A US horror writer has been accused of plagiarising dozens of reviews by other critics for a regular column.A US horror writer has been accused of plagiarising dozens of reviews by other critics for a regular column.
Lianne MacDougall, who uses the pen-name Lianne Spiderbaby and who is Quentin Tarantino's current paramour, reportedly copied material by writers for Empire magazine, Critical-Film.com and HighDefDigest.com, among others, for a column titled Spiderbaby's Terror Tapes on the FEARnet site. The alleged plagiarism was discovered after blogger Mike White of the site Impossible Funky set about following up an email tip-off from an anonymous source. White later detailed MacDougall's misappropriations in excruciating detail in a post on his blog on Saturday.Lianne MacDougall, who uses the pen-name Lianne Spiderbaby and who is Quentin Tarantino's current paramour, reportedly copied material by writers for Empire magazine, Critical-Film.com and HighDefDigest.com, among others, for a column titled Spiderbaby's Terror Tapes on the FEARnet site. The alleged plagiarism was discovered after blogger Mike White of the site Impossible Funky set about following up an email tip-off from an anonymous source. White later detailed MacDougall's misappropriations in excruciating detail in a post on his blog on Saturday.
MacDougall, host of the award-winning horror multimedia site Fright Bytes and author of forthcoming book Grindhouse Girls: Cinema's Hardest Working Women (which is rumoured to feature a foreword by Tarantino) has since deleted her Twitter account and pulled her website from the internet. Before that she apparently tweeted a brief apology to followers which was screen-captured by a number of sites: "I apologise for the plagiarism in my work. I am leaving journalism behind for awhile. I'm so sorry to everyone esp those I've wronged." FEARnet has since removed all of MacDougall's reviews.MacDougall, host of the award-winning horror multimedia site Fright Bytes and author of forthcoming book Grindhouse Girls: Cinema's Hardest Working Women (which is rumoured to feature a foreword by Tarantino) has since deleted her Twitter account and pulled her website from the internet. Before that she apparently tweeted a brief apology to followers which was screen-captured by a number of sites: "I apologise for the plagiarism in my work. I am leaving journalism behind for awhile. I'm so sorry to everyone esp those I've wronged." FEARnet has since removed all of MacDougall's reviews.
MaryAnn Johanson of the FlickFilosopher site said she was shocked to discover one of her reviews had been "borrowed" for MacDougall's column. "I'm sick of this shit, and it's time to start publicly shaming the wrongdoers," she wrote. "Here's my review of Turn Me On, Dammit! Lianne Spiderbaby's is here. And just in case she decides to edit it, here's the screenshot I took this morning, with the passages that have been lifted directly from my review highlighted."MaryAnn Johanson of the FlickFilosopher site said she was shocked to discover one of her reviews had been "borrowed" for MacDougall's column. "I'm sick of this shit, and it's time to start publicly shaming the wrongdoers," she wrote. "Here's my review of Turn Me On, Dammit! Lianne Spiderbaby's is here. And just in case she decides to edit it, here's the screenshot I took this morning, with the passages that have been lifted directly from my review highlighted."
The Gawker website has detailed MacDougall's attempts to convince White and other bloggers to remove their articles containing allegations against her. The site also posted a defence of the writer by Tim Lucas, editor of horror magazine Video Watchdog, suggesting that the writer was the victim of jealousy from fellow bloggers. "Ever since Lianne arrived on the scene I have noticed that she projects an image that certain fans hate on sight," Lucas wrote. "She's young, beautiful, affluent, educated, athletic and seems to be living a charmed and golden, bicoastal life, now with one of our leading writer/directors on her arm.The Gawker website has detailed MacDougall's attempts to convince White and other bloggers to remove their articles containing allegations against her. The site also posted a defence of the writer by Tim Lucas, editor of horror magazine Video Watchdog, suggesting that the writer was the victim of jealousy from fellow bloggers. "Ever since Lianne arrived on the scene I have noticed that she projects an image that certain fans hate on sight," Lucas wrote. "She's young, beautiful, affluent, educated, athletic and seems to be living a charmed and golden, bicoastal life, now with one of our leading writer/directors on her arm.
"She has always attracted trolls online, and not everything you read about her or her works online is automatically to be trusted. A certain bias seemed to be dripping from the headline of the article that first broke this story." However, Lucas later also deleted his comment on the Latarnia Forums site."She has always attracted trolls online, and not everything you read about her or her works online is automatically to be trusted. A certain bias seemed to be dripping from the headline of the article that first broke this story." However, Lucas later also deleted his comment on the Latarnia Forums site.
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