Maureen Dowd accused of plagiarism
And it looks like a mighty compelling case. Watch for her to say that she mixed up her notes. (Via Jay Rosen.)
Update: Dowd responds. And I was wrong. She's claiming a friend fed her the line.
Labels: ethics, Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Talking Points Memo
posted by Dan Kennedy @ 5:09 PM
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I don't care much for Maureen Dowd, but that's a pretty inconsequential instance of plagiarism. Lazy, yeah. Shows that she wanted to use the structure and forgot to rewrite it.
The original passage is wholly unremarkable.
If person A wrote "1 + 1 = 2" and person B wrote "1 + 1 equals 2", would anyone care?
I agreed with bostonmediawatch. Then I read her explanation.
I regret to say, it's a crock.
Hey, when a cop speeds outside of the line of duty, he's still breaking the law.
I guarantee this will send every Tom, Dick and Harry into the archives searching for other possible infractions. (Nothing wrong with that, either.)
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