Except this is pretty old news. And Mike Myers has not, thankfully, made another "Austin Powers" movie in years.
Like creepy NEWSWER, it seems that DECIDER spends most of their money on getting placement with News Aggregates, rather than hiring real journalists.
They hire skilled plagiarists instead. As in: re-write the copy from a REAL newspaper's research. As in: keep your eye on the talk shows, and if anything JUICY comes up, report on it.
How do you get away with this crap?
Easy. Give credit. Say you stole it all from Howard Stern's show, and better yet, link to GOOGLE's beloved YOUTUBE where people can actual see and hear the quotes. Win Win, dude. DECIDER gets traffic, GOOGLE gets traffic.
This is what a journalism major, and English major, is gonna do with her life?
"Guess what Ma, I'm working for DECIDER. I'm a JOURNALIST. What do I do? I watch TV a lot. I watch YOUTUBE a lot. If I see something, then I say something!"
Now even more people know that Dana Carvey was annoyed that Myers swiped his Lorne Michaels impression and pinky-chew, and used it for the "Dr. Evil" character. They also know that Dana was not quite so upset that he ever confronted Mike about it. He probably never will, because obviously the two aren't very close, and hell, Mike can read DECIDER and/or watch the YouTube clip and see Dana brush off being bothered and insist it's all been forgiven anyway.
Hard-hitting knee-jerk journalism.
Knee-jerk journalism is where you see what somebody else has done, and it knee-jerks you into copying it or re-writing it.
These days, it's as profitable, and less stressful than actually being a journalist and finding a story and reporting it.
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