Plagiarists are really stupid | ScienceBlogs
Another instance of a really dumb plagiarist, from The New York Times Corrections:
You work for The New York Times, and you plagiarize from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, etc.? Seriously. Dude even paid for J-school. Am I just not "getting" the plagiarist logic here? If you're going to steal copy, why not steal it from somewhere obscure, instead of your primary American rivals? (in the domain of business news) There are gonna be lots of people reading all of them, someone will notice. Sean Paul Kelley is looking like a genius....
Some guy named Mulshine, who is apparently an ancient journalist (remember: generation is mindset, not age), penned one of those idiotic pieces for Wall Street Journal, willingly exposing his out-datedness and blindness to the world - read it yourself and chuckle: All I Wanted for Christmas Was a…
Newspaper's editor exposes intern's plagiarism.
The Colorado Springs Gazette discovered that a summer intern in their newsroom published articles with plagiarized passages. The editor of the paper, Jeff Thomas, deemed this plagiarism a breach of the paper's trust with the public: [R]eporter Hailey Mac Arthur, a college student doing a summer…
My students know that plagiarism is bad. You'd think a major wire service would know it, too. But it would seem that maybe the Associated Press doesn't know that failing to properly cite sources is plagiarism. Or perhaps the AP does know, but doesn't care. When your business is built on the…
It makes sense - plagarism, especially in the context of journalism, is the product of extreme laziness. Rewritting the sections one might be tempted to lift to a degree that it would no longer be considered plagarism requires very little effort, so there's generally little effort put into concealing plagarism either.
By MattXIV (not verified) on 17 Feb 2010 #permalink
Plagiarists are really stupid | ScienceBlogs
Another instance of a really dumb plagiarist, from The New York Times Corrections:
You work for The New York Times, and you plagiarize from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, etc.? Seriously. Dude even paid for J-school. Am I just not "getting" the plagiarist logic here? If you're going to steal copy, why not steal it from somewhere obscure, instead of your primary American rivals? (in the domain of business news) There are gonna be lots of people reading all of them, someone will notice. Sean Paul Kelley is looking like a genius....
Some guy named Mulshine, who is apparently an ancient journalist (remember: generation is mindset, not age), penned one of those idiotic pieces for Wall Street Journal, willingly exposing his out-datedness and blindness to the world - read it yourself and chuckle: All I Wanted for Christmas Was a…
Newspaper's editor exposes intern's plagiarism.
The Colorado Sp
rings Gazette discovered that a summer intern in their newsroom published articles with plagiarized passages. The editor of the paper, Jeff Thomas, deemed this plagiarism a breach of the paper's trust with the public: [R]eporter Hailey Mac Arthur, a college student doing a summer…
My students know that plagiarism is bad. You'd think a major wire service would know it, too. But it would seem that maybe the Associated Press doesn't know that failing to properly cite sources is plagiarism. Or perhaps the AP does know, but doesn't care. When your business is built on the…
It makes sense - plagarism, especially in the context of journalism, is the product of extreme laziness. Rewritting the sections one might be tempted to lift to a degree that it would no longer be considered plagarism requires very little effort, so there's generally little effort put into concealing plagarism either.
By MattXIV (not verified) on 17 Feb 2010 #permalink