Mon 28 Dec 2009
Signal suspends local opinion columns after second columnist plagiarizes
Posted by admin under Local , Media , Opinion [2] Comments
(Posted with permission from The Signal) The Signal learned Monday a second columnist has recently plagiarized in at least one article, prompting editors to suspend all local opinion columnists. An anonymous tip from a reader revealed that Carole Lutness, in her Nov. 9 column titled “Public education is a liberal value,” copied an entire paragraph and some sentences, word for word and without attribution, from an electronic journal article published in 2001.
“It’s plagiarism,” admitted Lutness, a local Democratic activist. “I went to Google and I typed in ‘history of public education in the United States’ and I took a paragraph from it. … It was succinct and I was wrong.”
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December 29th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Writing is hard, isn’t it?
December 29th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Chris, if I may be so bold; I would say writing isn’t hard if all one does is copy someone else’s thoughts and pass them off as your own.
Having an original thought or idea and being able to write it in a way that is interesting enough to make people want to read it; now that’s hard.