President & founder of BNO News Michael van Poppel discovered that two of his tweets were republished without attribution on the @DenverChannel and @7NewsMorning Twitter accounts this morning. These appear to be the tweets in question:
https://twitter.com/#!/mpoppel/status/195474081011871744
https://twitter.com/#!/DenverChannel/status/195474196824997888
https://twitter.com/#!/7NewsMorning/status/195474198423011328
https://twitter.com/#!/mpoppel/status/195469719254466560
https://twitter.com/#!/DenverChannel/status/195470192384544770
https://twitter.com/#!/7NewsMorning/status/195470193764470784
Not much of a question, is there? We’ve all had tweets swiped and it rarely seems worth getting worked up. But it’s pretty shameless for a news organization to lift tweets instead of re-tweeting with attribution.
30 minutes after van Poppel confronted the ABC affiliate, no response had been tweeted from either account.