Can you spell "plagiarism"?

I'll give it a try:

Liberalswithnonewideas.

Better get your story straight before the questions start coming, Globe.

If this puff piece from last weeks Embassy Magazine over his book, A War Against Truth, has the facts right, he is a bit of a conspiracy theory nutter.
Neutron Bombs against the Republican Guards, assassinating a Kurdish hit team who were going to get Saddam because the serial numbers on their AK’s weren’t filed off, marines dropping cluster bombs shaped like toys to target women and children, etc.

http://www.embassymag.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2006/april/19/roberts/

Reido

Anyone remember the Jayson Blair-NY Times scandal?

Of course, he is most likely a member in good standing of the MSM "progressives" and, as such, has a "nuanced" set of ethical values.

(For synonyms for "nuanced", see expediency, glib, chameleon-like, hypocritical, amoral.)

Now, if it were a non-lefty journalist or writer, we can all imagine the howls of indignation from all The Usual Suspects...

Kate, this happens more often than most people know. In the late eighties MacLean's magazine did a cover story on money launering. Given that I was, at the time, the Officer in Charge of the RCMP Proceeds of Crime program, the writer interviewed me in Ottawa. Part of the story was focused on how dirty money is laundered. Given that I was very busy at the time, I gave the writer a paper that I had written, about 15 pages, on money laundering techniques to give him an idea of the various methods used. When the piece was published, I was very surprised to find that my paper had been copied, almost word for word, and comprised about 4 1/2 pages of the article.

Umm...that would be "laundering"...

And that's why Frank magazine constantly referred to journalists as "typists."

I think I feel a Pulitzer (or two?) in the works here.

He's in deep on this one. Thats a firing offense.

Ouch. That guy is sooooo busted.

Colin, i don't think he's a staff writer but submits op-eds. He's a kook and i hope he gets sued and feels the sting deep in his wallet. Bob at Let it Bleed has shred his stuff on more than one occassion http://letitbleed.blogs.com/blog/2005/09/a_smokescreen_a.html

ah, "word-laundering-typists" ... dangerous curves ahead...

according to New Republic's website, their annual budget is about $260.000. hopefully they can sell this idea to the G+M... haha.

Two books; same title. Different writers.

Did Tushingham plagiarize his title, Hotter Than Hell, from Sheppard's book, Hotter Than Hell? +

Hotter Than Hell reviews
Hotter Than Hell lives up to its name; Simon Sheppard sets the pages on fire. ... Then there's the astonishing series of what appear to be nostalgic ...
www.simonsheppard.com/hotterthanhellre.html - 14k -

DreamCatcher Publishing Inc
New Release November 30/05 Hotter Than Hell by Mark Tushingham ... And then neither patriotism, nor all the economic power of the world's superpower, ...
www.dreamcatcherpublishing.ca/ - 31k -

Environment Minister Rona Ambrose has stopped an Environment Canada scientist from speaking publicly about his own novel. ... Mark Tushingham has written a science fiction novel called Hotter than Hell... +
http://whatisthemessage.blogspot.com/

Roberts was one of my favourite travel writers.
I thought his books about travelling through Iran, Iraq and Jordan (Journey of the Magi) and his account of visiting Saddam's Iraq after the 1st Gulf war ( The Demonic Comedy) were both entertaining and well written.
Even though he wrote about the hardships and suffering of the people living in these dysfunctional societies he held an underlying contemp for Western Civilization.
Now it looks like he's really popped a cog. He wouldn't be the first artist that has lost it but continues on to shame.

I'd still recommend his early books but considering his action against a fellow author, borrow them from a library.

Mississauga Matt writes: 'And that's why Frank magazine constantly referred to journalists as "typists."'

Actually; many of them don't type all that well; they tend to be "scanners".

OT but CPC at 41% according to new polls.
Harper better stop making mistakes like the last few days or he'll end up at 65% before he knows it.

Have you notice when one reporter invents a story or spins a line or makes headlines from those supposed leaked memos or anonymous high level concervatives that somehow they ALL repeat the same story.

Ah - that is how urban legends are born or, in this sphere -propaganda.

We know the MSM, specifically the spoon fed entitled to their entitlements Parliamentary press gallery in Ottawa are basically lazy. They thrive on repeating gossip and rumours. They treat the nationa's business like they are doing a play by play or boow by blow of a prize fight. They chortle over the "hits" instead of reporting the substance. Notice how CBC just broadcasts the first few questions of Question Period and the next hour is ignored. We have to go to CPAC - yet our tax dollars pay for CBC. Insteadf of letting us watch more of QP we have to watch Don Newman chortling about the current contrived contriversy or comments just like Don Cherry talking about a hockey game after the fact.

So, when would they get a chance to polish off original work or do real investigative reporting. They cannot claim to be a media that "keeps government accountable" like CTV advertises - they were almost co-conspirators for the Liberals and many themselves got personal rewards.

A symptom of our times? Draw your own conclusions if ethic really matter with our elite literati and their spawn?

Here's a student at Harvard whose novel lifted at least a dozen passages wholecloth from another novelist:

When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own," Viswanathan said in an interview on NBC's "Today" show......

Her publisher has stood by her, saying it believes the similarities are an "unfortunate but honest mistake."

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/26/D8H7NBR83.html

Got that.

She'll get her Harvard degree. NBC, I'm sure, fawned over her little snafu.(You can bet that being Indian, they held her to a lessor standard than a white girl.) Her publisher is doing a re-write for her. Hollywood will get their movie. All parties are satisfied except the plagiarized author.

No consequences. No cancellations out of principle. It appears that no one in this axis of elites - Harvard, Hollywood, the publisher, nor the MSM is censoring her for cheating.

The Vernile File on TV recently did a story that was almost word for word the same story that CNN ran. I'd bet CNN didn't copy Vernile.

Nice catch -- there goes someone's job.

Elmasry (not El Misery@TO mosque) pinches "Pinch":
All the news that is fit to be blogged. +

TIMES IN CRISIS; SEEKS EXPERT HELP WITH SHAREHOLDER REVOLT (Jayson Blair, Judith Miller scandals fal
NY POST ^ | April 27, 2006 | JANET WHITMAN

Posted on 04/27/2006 3:11:06 AM PDT by Liz

Facing shareholder dissent and getting flak for bloated executive pay deals, The New York Times is frantically searching for crisis p.r. experts as the company gears up for a public battle over the future of the newspaper giant.

Chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. and other top management have been criticized for putting off the concerns of Morgan Stanley portfolio manager Hassan Elmasry and for a share price that's plummeted 50 percent since 2002.

Soon after Morgan's attack last week on The Times, the publisher's spokeswoman, Catherine Mathis, was phoning Knight Ridder spokesman Polk Laffoon seeking advice, sources familiar with the matter said.

In addition to fallout from the Jayson Blair scandal and Judith Miller's controversial imprisonment, The Times' business has been suffering.

The paper lost nearly 20 percent of its readers in the five boroughs between 2001 and 2004, as it pushed to reinvent itself as a national publication. Its daily circulation in New York City fell to 260,526 copies from 320,682.

Despite the sagging stock performance and job cuts across the company, Sulzberger and CEO Janet Robinson were awarded hefty payouts. Robinson's 2005 restricted stock award jumped nearly fivefold from a year earlier to roughly $2 million. Sulzberger's stock award nearly doubled to $817,500. + http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622360/posts

Hi all (from the editor of globeandmail.com) -- this was published both in print and online by The Globe today:
CLARIFICATION
A profile of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that appeared in last Saturday's Focus section referred to a story about the Iranian President in the current issue of The New Republic. After an investigation by The Globe and Mail, it appears that notes by the author were mistakenly inserted into the story without proper attribution. The Globe has apologized to The New Republic and regrets the error.

"...it appears that notes by the author were mistakenly inserted into the story without proper attribution..."

Question. If this is in fact true, why is it that the "notes by the author" were not identical? There were a number of changes in some words. Just wondering.

If the first sentence was identical in both paragraphs, then the G+M's "clarification" would seem to be believeable. However, they are saying, although there are changes to this sentence, they regard the sentence as "notes". hmmmm.? So they rewrite the notes, to become... "different notes", then accidently included them?

The Globe's "clarification" is bunk. The PWR article is about 2,000 words, and about a third of that, essentially all the content about Amhmadinejad, is a lightly paraphrased version of the original by MK. That does not constitute "notes by the author." And "mistakenly inserted?" A line or a paragraph, maybe. Not 700 words.

Jonathan Kay in today's National Post: "[T]he Globe is deliberately obfuscating a clear case of plagiarism."