It's not a bad thing?

I disagree...if you're a journalist and you're using a message board for article ideas instead of going out and digging up stories as your job description calls for, then that's weak. May as well be plagiarism.

It's one thing to take a final score off the board and a few simple stats (that weren't reported)--it's another to take a story that could be controversial/sensitive off of here and then try to report it as your own...and out the source as the message board when you sense you're in trouble.