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Jul 15 13 2:58 PM
Burgomaster
gef the talking mongoose wrote:Some days, I swear, it seems like I'm the only "journalist I respect" (& I haven't even been part of that field in the last 11 1/2 years!), so I get where you're coming from in that regard, Gary. And I have no quarrel with Tim Lucas on any other grounds whatosever, but, my god, I just can't get around his assertion that blatant serial plagiarismboils down to a stupid mistake, repeated out of simple convenience until it caught up with her, and made in the first place because she's still young and fairly new to the rigors of professional writing.What part of that sounds even remotely defensible to you? (Evidently, by the way, she's 30. That's certainly younger than me or probably most of the rest of us, but it ain't exactly junior high.)Unlike me, of course, Taraco is still in the newspaper biz. David, would that sort of (ir)rationale fly at USA Today? It sure as heck wouldn't at the Gannett paper where I used to work as metro editor, or at the dailies I labored for before that.
boils down to a stupid mistake, repeated out of simple convenience until it caught up with her, and made in the first place because she's still young and fairly new to the rigors of professional writing.
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