NY- As if being tagged the "Long Island Lolita" isn't bad enough, some folks are now calling Amy Fisher the new Jayson Blair.
A Chicago Tribune journalist is claiming Fisher swiped his work for two columns she penned in the Long Island Press. Maurice Possley says articles he wrote with Steve Mills about a Texas arson case reappeared, slightly altered, with no credit to the Tribune.
"I don't know much about Ms. Fisher's journalism training, so it may be that taking someone else's work, putting it through a word processor and lifting quotes are acceptable practices to her," Possley told us. "(But) I would think that to purport to practice journalism, (the Press) would understand this is not acceptable."
Press editor in chief Robbie Woliver responds: "Plagiarism does not include telling the same story over again, especially when it is done for the purpose of adding commentary."
At least Fisher's doing better than her former beau Joey Buttafuoco, who just started serving ice cream cones at a Mister Freeze concession in L.A, catering to the stars of "Desperate Housewives" and "Crossing Jordan." Let's hope he's not doing it to meet girls!
