Lee Gomes, a WSJ reporter recently undertook a moonlighting writing gig for peanuts, just to see how the process worked.
Topics ranged from positive comments on colloidal silver to how bird flu mutates so that it can be passed from human to human.
After turning down the first article Lee wrote the second and then was asked to write more on the same topic, but given other full articles from other sites, and asked to slightly modify and plagiarize them.