Moral of the Koufax- Murdoch a.k.a. Piers Akerman story is

Preface:
Letters Editor
Daily Telegraph

Dear Sir or Madam,

Piers Akerman ranting attack on the ABC, Media Watch and David Marr deserves just a brief response. Using other people's words without acknowledgement is plagiarism.

Akerman's column on Carmen Lawrence lifted a slab of 262 words in precise order, unacknowledged, straight from an Israeli Defence Forces press release.

His column on John McCrae's poem, In Flanders Field, lifted 350 words from a copyright website. Akerman changed a few words here and there, but didn't acknowledge his source.

Once upon a time newspapers fired plagiarists. Now it seems they give them a column to abuse their critics.

Yours sincerely
Peter McEvoy
Executive Producer
Media Watch

You remember them -- the sort in which virtue vies with vice, right with wrong. In the end, good triumphs and everyone takes home a useful lesson.
Nowadays, that sort of clarity is scarcer than a fairly priced gallon of gas. We deal, most of the time, in mixed motives and ambiguous outcomes.
That's what makes the improbable faceoff between Sandy Koufax and Rupert Murdoch a tale worth pondering by anybody who cares about the state of the American media.
· Good old-fashioned morality tales don't come along too often these days [LATimes]