On Monday, The Globe and Mail reluctantly (and rather confusingly) acknowledged
another
little attribution problem in a column by Margaret Wente. Below are sections from Tuesday’s (remarkably similar) column. Questions
posed earlier apply; leaving aside the fact that readers are now being asked to
fork over money for online content, would a student get away with this?
Yesterday: Raghida
Dergham, columnist for the Lebanese newspaper …"...leading from behind really
becomes a problem...”
Yesterday: And
so even though Syria has turned into a bloodbath, don’t expect Western
intervention any time soon…Mr. Assad has already slaughtered 40,000 of his
countrymen and there is no end in sight.
Today: They
are wringing their hands over Syria, where Bashar al-Assad (who was recently
celebrated as an unusually enlightened dictator) has massacred 40,000 of his
own people.
Yesterday: The
ultra-hawkish U.S. Senator John McCain said he feels “ashamed” that his country
isn’t intervening more forcefully in Syria. Representatives of Syrian democracy
groups say they feel “abandoned.”
Today: John
McCain, the hawkish U.S. senator, said he is “ashamed” that Washington hasn’t
intervened. Syrian democracy groups said they feel abandoned.
Yesterday: Four
years ago, no one foresaw the Arab Spring, or predicted that Islamism would be
on the rise around the Middle East.
Today:
Idealists around the world cheered on the Arab
Spring and watched it blossom into the Great Islamist Awakening.
Yesterday: As
Peter MacKay, Canada’s Defence Minister, proclaimed, “There is a higher calling
on democracies…” In practice, though,
the democracies are slashing their defence budgets.
Today:
NATO allies are also slashing defence budgets. Peter MacKay, Canada’s Defence Minister, may
talk nobly about the “higher calling” for countries such as ours.
The tank has officially run dry.
ReplyDeleteThanks for tracking this.
ReplyDeleteAll I can offer is a mashup of her own column into a new column, which I posted to my own blog. http://noraloreto.ca/2012/11/12/plagiarizing-margaret-wente/
Enjoy!
Should you want to pass this along to your readers, here are the current defining URLs re: wine writer Natalie MacLean and attribution...
ReplyDeletehttp://palatepress.com/2012/12/wine/content-theft/
http://palatepress.com/2012/12/wine/pay-for-play-wine-writing/
http://www.decanter.com/news/wine-news/530726/natalie-maclean-what-i-am-doing-is-legal-and-right
http://thejosephreport.blogspot.ca/2012/12/pay-to-play.html
http://blog.wblakegray.com/2012/12/natalie-maclean-should-pay.html
http://winediarist.com/worlds-best-wine-writer-busted/
http://www.vinography.com/archives/2012/12/the_soap_opera_of_wine.html
http://vinquebec.com/node/10489
http://winehiker.posterous.com/the-hyprocrisy-of-natalie-maclean
http://www.ambitonline.com/nextrelease/2012/12/wine-writers-behaving-badly-the-natalie-maclean-story/
http://intoxreport.com/2012/12/23/maclean-is-macdirty-i-have-your-hack-back-natalie/
http://blog.wblakegray.com/2012/12/natalie-maclean-tells-lie.html
http://hosemasterofwine.blogspot.ca/2012/12/nat-defrauds.html
http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/pendock/2012/12/27/the-passion-of-natalie-maclean/
Twitter hashtag #natnabbed
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Dean Tudor, Ryerson University Journalism Professor Emeritus
Treasurer, Wine Writers' Circle of Canada
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