Only if they weren't passing it off as their own writing. They were. This looks like a high school kid cheating on their papers. The journalist would be better off if they didn't copy the article, and came up with their own evaluation of the king county statement, then linking the full king county statement. Dont just fucking copy it. We can see what they are doing, we know it is copied, and it reeks of blog spam, particularly because they keep spamming this reddit with their articles, all of which seem to be written by one person with no real effort in providing proofs of any kind. I read about the journalists and don't feel as if they are doing anything but shoving as many people into their ad-riddled, biased, neighborhood paper. This is the same as my insane neighbor putting up signs around town touting his professional journalism of copy paste and advertising on the site. It is obvious and leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. Have at least a small amount of integrity.