The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has cleared Steve Berg, an editorial page writer, of plagiarism charges even after finding two "improper and unfortunate" instances of "nonattribution," according to editorial page editor Susan Albright.
So, stealing ideas and words twice in less than a year is the new standard at the Strib. Good to know.
Actually, I am somewhat sympathetic to the plagairist here. There is so much out there, by so many people, I have been wondering just how many times a person comes up with what he believes to be original phrasing, and it turns out not to be as original as he thought.
ReplyDeletePower Line caught the plagairism, and it ought to be obvious to everyone by now that you can't do this any more; someone will always catch you, unless you happen to be a too-small-potatoes blogger like me!
But I do worry that if I write "Jimmy Carter is an idiot," it might be original to me, but it's hardly the first time those words were strung together like that.