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Owner of Small Newspaper Chain Denies Plagiarizing

By AAN Staff
may 27, 2003  01:48 pm
Owner of Small Newspaper Chain Denies Plagiarizing
Tom Picou (pictured), president, chairman, and CEO of the company that owns the Tri-State Defender in Memphis, warns Chicago Reader's Michael Miner to be objective about reports of plagiarism at the paper or "I will not hesitate to come after you." Several former employees say Picou himself was Larry Reeves, the mysterious unpaid freelance writer who lifted stories from AAN papers coast to coast, including the Reader. Picou calls the reports about the Defender's plagiarism "bullshit" and says he never even read Reeves' stories. "I just laid them out. And that was my job."
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