Fort Wayne/White House plagiarism

Maybe I'm D_Bing, but former FW columnist nails current free-lancing conservative columnist - who just happens to be a White House aide:

http://nancynall.com/

Great work by Nancy Nall. My favorite part: The comments below where apologists scream that, "This should have been handled privately!" And claim that, "Tim immediately apologized and acknolwedged his mistake."

Yeah, acknowledged them after he was nailed with no question for 20 cases of blatant plagiarism.

This is the same thing I hear any time a negative story is broken on a college beat: "Why couldn't this have been handled privately??"

 

Sirs, Madames,

The most compelling argument yet for making plagiarism punishable by lethal injection.

YD&OHS, etc

 

Can't do it? Get another job.

Lazy? Choke.

 

That's just awfully blatant.

I do what I can to avoid even the perception of plagiarism. If I know I'm going to be writing a story about a game I've covered, I refuse to even read other accounts of games.

It shouldn't be that hard to come up with an original point. Then again, it IS someone from the Bush administration we're talking about here.

 

This story did produce perhaps my favorite AP kill of all time.

WASHINGTON — Kill the short headline in BC-White House-Plagiarism, 9th Ld, which moved at 6:35 p.m. EST. A presidential aide resigned, not Bush.

 

Damn.

 

Dammit!

(EDIT: F_B beat me to it! )

 

27/38

Check to see if he stole from you:

http://www.newssentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080303/NEWS/803030320

 

The guy was working as an unpaid columnist and had no deadlines. Why the hell did he plagarize stuff? It wasn't like he was under all this deadline pressure to get copy out, or that he would lose a good salary if he didn't make deadline. You've got to be dumb and lazy to plagarize in this case....too lazy and dumb to quit a job you're not getting paid for.

 

Sirs, Madames,

Wouldn't it be easier and more space-efficient just to list his original work?

YD&OHS, etc

 

Here is the dude's apology:

I was working as an unpaid columnist and had no deadlines. Why the hell did I plagiarize stuff? It wasn't like I was under all this deadline pressure to get copy out, or that I would lose a good salary if I didn't make deadline. I've got to be dumb and lazy to plagiarize in this case ... too lazy and dumb to quit a job I'm not getting paid for.

 

I wouldn't know because I don't watch it, but is Fox News having a field day with this one? Or have they let it slide? What about Rush, et al?