'Fox News has Learned' How to Rip off Danger Room (Updated)

Old school reporters crib from blogs all the time. It happens to Danger Room so often, I hardly even pay attention to it any more.

But even my jaded eyes grew big when I read the opening sentence of this Fox News piece:

The Pentagon has suffered from a cyber attack so alarming that it has taken the unprecedented step of banning the use of external hardware devices, such as flash drives and DVD's, FOX News has learned.

Now, how did Fox News' Justin Fishel and Jennifer Griffin managed to "learn" about this turn of events? Well, ever-so-coincidentally, we just happened to break a story -- on the exact same topic -- the day before Fox ran its piece. Way to dig hard, folks. I'll notify the Pulitzer committee.

Now, to their credit, Fishel and Griffin didn't simply rewrite our story. They managed to get a nebulous "official statement." And they added a touch of sky-is-falling spin, dubbing the worm that's replicating on Pentagon computers a "cyber attack," rather than an infection. That puts them miles ahead of other legacy media blog-skimmers.

But still. Giving credit where it's due is just as easy as writing "Fox News has learned." And it's a little more honest.

UPDATE: Commenters' reactions have been pretty much universal: Stop whining, Noah.

UPDATE 2: Stars & Stripes, ZDNet, The Register, and Australia's News.com, among others, are kind enough to give us the shout out.

(Good eye: DD)