My old college pal Lee Gardner ( former Knoxvillian and writer for Metro Pulse) is the editor of Baltimore's award winning alt.weekly, City Paper.
This week City Paper ran a very interesting investigative piece looking into plagiarism by one of Maryland's best-known political columnists, and it looks like the guy has lost his job as a result.
Read the story (linked above) and tell me what your take is. Should this journalist lose his job over lifting this particular material? What do you think?
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2 comments:
No, he shouldn't lose his job. he admitted the mistake, it's clear how it happened, they ran a correction. This is nothing like Jayson Blair.
But he should be very careful in the future to tag ANY notes that need to be cited as coming from anyone else. That's one of the first things I learned in graduate school, when research started getting 'messy' for me.
It sounds like a clear mistake. Not the kind one should lose one's job over.
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