Reply #10: The incidents you have to draw on are similar, they are all told simply

[Berry Cool]

and matter-of-factly...is there any evidence here of a unique piece of knowledge, a special turn of phrase, that you used that he also did?

If you can point to several very convincing instances of that, you might have a case. Otherwise, it's going to be very hard to prove this is a case of anything other than your staff and his staff researching the same topic and drawing very similar conclusions.

And you may well be guilty of the fallacy that he says we all have to avoid when examining these incidents: the assumption that just because B followed A, that B was caused by A. Just because his report followed your blogging doesn't mean that he ripped off your blog. And it's not as if you were the only blogger or the only journalistic source doing this kind of research.

And if you're that concerned about the MSM ripping you off, then take a bold step. Go all the way. Stop blogging and become a paid journalist. You'll have more power in your corner that way. As it is, bloggers may hold the rights to what they publish, but those rights are harder to defend when you don't have a pack of lawyers behind you to back you up.