I got suspicious reading a story about “Are Cruise Ships Safe?” on MyCruiseStories. So I started to investigate. I first noticed that all the images are hyperlinked to a huntsvillegrapevine.com blog. So as a proper journalist, I decided to investigate it. Little did I know, I’d be surprised at what I found.
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From: My Cruise Stories |
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From: Huntsville Grapevine |
From the looks of it, it’s supposedly a Guest Blog entry from a Captain John L. Beath of My Travel Tastes. Only thing is, Guest Blog entries are always going to original content and not just ‘copied’ from other posts. You be the judge. Is there something fishy here?
Digging even deeper by looking at the HTML of the site I see my above suspicions about the photos are correct. Using the My Cruise Stories site as an example: the image code is in blue. Notice 3 of them are from Grapevine without and note of contribution or any reference to the actual source.
