Hey, LAobserved, I like that swine flu piece....

So, a week ago I posted a mock conversation I imagined happening in newsrooms across America. It was, by far, this fledgling blog's greatest hit, blowing away anything I've ever written here.
Apparently that piece has gone way beyond The Recession Kitchen, which is very cool. But at the same time, one little thing has me worried.
When I emailed a link to the post to a friend in LA, he replied that he'd already seen it. When I told him that I'd written it, he told me that he saw it first at a blog called laobserved.
My first thought, pretty cool someone liked my work enough to re-post it.
Then I read the post and realized that somewhere along the line, my work had been orphaned. My name and the name of my blog had been completely stripped from the post. The folks at LaObserved even noted this in their re-post, saying that it had reached a paper in SoCal and the Denver Post but no one knew who wrote it. Then, I realized that if you google "swine flu newsroom" you get their site and not mine. Therefore continuing the fable that the writer of the piece is unknown.
Hi, name's Dave.
Anyway, on Sunday I sent them an email to let them know that I'd written the piece, was flattered that they liked it, but that I'd appreciate a little dap. After all, we're all journalists here, and we all understand the need to respect copyright, not so much for the money, but, because creators should get credit for their work.
Well, three days have gone by and I've heard nothing back. My words are still there on the site, still anonymous, still orphaned. Google it and you'll still go to their site, not mine. I am hopeful that hey somehow didn't get my message. Maybe it went to junk mail. Maybe someone's on vacation. But there is something else here, too. Somewhere along the line, someone decided that my words were good enough to pass along, but that who wrote them wasn't important enough to get credit. Then someone decided to re-post them on a popular blog without tracing the steps backwards to find out where those words came from. That's a failure of reporting, or, as one of my old editors would say, a failure of caring. I hope that's not the case.
I don't mean to get all salty here, but seriously, wholesale jacking of something without any attribution? Not cool, y'all.