the paragraphs had been inadvertently included after he “put a note, in an unpublished story file, that included a section from a story by the New York Times.” That note, including the text from the Times, Harnden wrote, “was not clear, however, and the reporter thought I had rewritten part of his story.”
Isn’t that kind of how the Melania plagiarism of Michelle’s speech was claimed to have happened?
Wait, isn’t the NYT fake news but the Washington Examiner real news? I’m so confused.
Managing Editor says, “My own writing is unclear”. (OK, that’s interesting.) Goes on to say that “explains” how his news staff accidentally copied entire paragraphs verbatim from another publication. Uh huh.
Melania Trump: “That’s OK. It could happen to anyone.”
I guess they thought that if they made a few changes that it would no longer be plagiarism.
Uh…no. Still unethical. Still plagiarism.
I’m guessing you missed the woman (Amy Kremer appears on MSNBC) who is scared because witches put a hex on Kavanaugh.
Well, I for one, thought they gave the game away when they put, “All the news that’s fit to print…from the NYT”, below their masthead.
See, this is very easy to explain. I had just come from the range after doing some target shooting and I picked up my pistol from the car seat thinking it was my sunglasses. And then I handed the teller a note saying “give me all your money and nobody gets hurt,” which is just a sentence I was using to practice my penmanship, instead of the check I meant to deposit. And when I was given the bag of money I figured it was one of those millionth-customer things. All very inadvertent.
Seriously if you’re doing it right this is pretty close to impossible. You simply don’t paste other publications’ copy into your story. Even in a “reportedly” and “according to” situation, you attribute it in the first place and keep indicating the source. Lifting someone else’s copy was a dangerous thing to do even in the pre-internet days, and now, you can imagine. Very, very reckless.
They take the “fake news”, sieve it through a colander of stupidity, projection and name-calling, then put it under a gaslight…and out comes the news!
You’re guessing wrong.
She wasn’t something I read—she was something I listened to while laughing out loud at what she said.
Its always the party of “values” (law&order, family values, honesty) that get caught plagiarizing or engaging in extra-marital weird sex, or torture, or just plain old lying their assess off. Funny, isn’t it.
I daresay liberals indulge in a bit of larceny from time to time, but still!
Amy Kremer also tried to argue that the real concern for people should be men being sexually assaulted by women. (I’m not dismissing this as valid when it does occur). That women is so blatantly stupid, brainwashed, or unstable that I can’t understand why even the crazy right wingers would want to be represented by her.
Right. An editor could include a note that says, “The Times reported this element, which is missing from your story. Please contact source to verify.” The written piece would include something like, “First reported in the NYTimes, source verifies TK.”
So lazy. I’d be fired for that.
I figured this happened because the Examiner assumed all readers stay in their own lanes - that NYT readers don’t stray over to the Examiner and their readers never look at the “Failing” NYT.
A long time ago a well-known columnist at a paper I won’t name was caught internally doing it. They didn’t fire her, being well-known and all, but they sent her down to the minors for a while, since it was within a chain and they could send her to one of the smaller papers for a few months so she could think it all over. Heh.
At first I thought that entire first paragraph was snark. But then I thought, “Who hasn’t had that happen to them?”
I was going to call BS on the Examiner explanation, but then I looked at what I was typing into the comment window and damn if it didn’t include some sentences from a recent Washington Examiner editorial. Only thing I can think of is that I stepped in them when I was out walking, and they came in on the bottom of my shoe.
I’m sorry, but are you suggesting that “standards” and “rules” are still in play here?