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    NY Times investigating plagiarism allegations

    NY Times investigating plagiarism allegations
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    NEW YORK – The New York Times is looking into the work of one its reporters following accusations that he plagiarized from The Wall Street Journal and other sources.

    The paper published an editor's note online Sunday and in papers Monday that said reporter Zachery Kouwe "appears to have improperly appropriated wording and passages published by other news organizations."

    The Times said Journal editors pointed out similarities between a Journal story from Feb. 5 and Times pieces later that day and on Feb. 6. The Times said a search found other similar examples taken from media outlets like Reuters and that an investigation is ongoing.

    Kouwe declined to comment on Tuesday.

    The Journal's letter listed six examples from a story about Bernard Madoff's relatives.

    Among the examples was a sentence from Journal reporter Amir Efrati that read, "Mr. Picard said the family received about $141 million in the six months leading up to Mr. Madoff's December 2008 arrest." The letter pointed out that Kouwe's version read, "Mr. Picard said the family received about $141 million in the six months leading up to Mr. Madoff's arrest in December 2008."

    The Times said that a search of Kouwe's work didn't turn up any indications that his stories had any inaccuracies. The newspaper declined to comment on any penalties Kouwe could face.

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    A good question I thought of, is it plagiarism if they're quoting something someone said?

    But seriously, in this day and age, who in the world would think they'd get away with it?

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    Among the examples was a sentence from Journal reporter Amir Efrati that read, "Mr. Picard said the family received about $141 million in the six months leading up to Mr. Madoff's December 2008 arrest." The letter pointed out that Kouwe's version read, "Mr. Picard said the family received about $141 million in the six months leading up to Mr. Madoff's arrest in December 2008."
    How many ways can you rewrite this bit of information ??

    Is there something more ... or did somebody want a raise ?
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    New York Times reporter accused of plagiarism resigns
    Wed Feb 17, 12:22 pm ET


    WASHINGTON (AFP) – A Wall Street and finance reporter for The New York Times accused of plagiarism has resigned, the newspaper reported.

    Zachery Kouwe, who joined the Times in 2008 from the New York Post, resigned on Tuesday, the Times said, citing "two people briefed on the matter."

    The newspaper said Kouwe met on Tuesday with representatives of the Times, The New York Times Co. and the Newspaper Guild of New York to discuss possible disciplinary action but instead the reporter resigned.

    A Times Co. spokeswoman, Diane McNulty, was quoted as saying "the Times has dealt with this, as we said we would in our Editors' Note, consistent with our standards to protect the integrity of our journalism."

    In the Editors' Note, the Times said Kouwe appeared to have "reused language from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and other sources without attribution or acknowledgment," in a number of business articles over the past year and in posts on NYTimes.com's DealBook blog.

    The Times said it was alerted to the plagiarism case by the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, Robert Thomson, who noted similarities between a Journal story and a Times story of February 5.

    "A subsequent search by The Times found other cases of extensive overlap between passages in Mr. Kouwe's articles and other news organizations," the Times said in the Editors' Note earlier this week.

    "Copying language directly from other news organizations without providing attribution -- even if the facts are independently verified -- is a serious violation of Times policy and basic journalistic standards," it said.

    According to his biography on the Times website, the New York-based Kouwe covered hedge funds, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, investment banking and other subjects. He worked from 2005 to 2008 at the New York Post, where he was chief mergers and acquisitions reporter.

    Nearly seven years ago, New York Times reporter Jayson Blair resigned over what the newspaper at the time called "widespread fabrication and plagiarism."


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    Posner, Kouwe, and Hegemann:
    old-school vs. new-school attitudes about plagiarism

    Sara Libby – Fri Feb 19, 1:20 pm ET


    Los Angeles – From allegations against “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling to demonstrable wrongdoing by reporters at The New York Times and The Daily Beast, February might as well be “National Plagiarism Month.”

    It would thus be easy to view the case of 17-year-old German novelist Helene Hegemann as the exclamation point to this series of copying controversies.

    What separates Ms. Hegemann, though, isn’t simply her young age, but her response to allegations that she lifted almost an entire page from the little-known novel “Strobo.”

    Whereas New York Times reporter Zachery Kouwe and The Daily Beast’s Gerald Posner both professed shock at the accusations against them, admitted the seriousness of their offenses, and then resigned, Hegemann stands firmly by her techniques.

    She insists that by incorporating her own fresh take on others’ writings, she’s simply engaging in a new kind of Generation-Y literary remixing.

    “There’s no such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity,” Hegemann said in a statement. That view is hardly an outlier. Expect to see more of this approach to intellectual property as Millennials (sometimes called Generation Y) come to dominate culture.

    Indeed, some literary heavy hitters are seeing things the same way: Hegemann’s novel, “Axolotl Roadkill,” is up for a prestigious book award, and one of the jury members for the prize has said Hegemann’s methods don’t change his appraisal of its quality. “I believe it’s part of the concept of the book,” he told The New York Times.

    Hegemann seems to be taking a cue from the underground DJs she chronicles in “Axolotl Roadkill” – who take pieces of various musicians’ songs and weave them together to create remixes or mash-ups that are, in turn, new pieces of art.

    Such “transformative” rethinking on existing works, some might argue, is even allowable in certain instances under US copyright law.

    This is precisely the defense mounted by artist Shepard Fairey, who created that iconic Obama “Hope” poster that is plastered across Millennial bedroom doors throughout the country. Is it any wonder that the young people who seized on that manipulated image, which many argue violated copyright law, have a similar outlook on their own works?

    Hegemann is right that members of Gen Y, who’ve grown up accustomed to “crowd-sourced” technology, or online tools like Wikipedia, which encourage members to collaborate and build on one another’s expertise to form a more substantive description of a person or event, are bound to have a more flexible outlook on “borrowing” and the meaning of originality.

    Problems will inevitably erupt, however, if journalists begin to embrace Hegemann’s concept of what she calls “intertextuality” without giving consideration to likely ramifications. Even given industry standards on plagiarism – The New York Times issued a stern rebuke of Mr. Kouwe, for example – Americans are generally wary of what they read in newspapers and online. If the news business were to even tentatively embrace taking other people’s words or ideas without proper attribution, the public’s trust would probably erode altogether.

    I’ve typically come to the defense of Gen Y, to which I belong, when baby boomers and others accuse us of neglecting personal relationships in favor of social networking, or of growing so reliant on technology that we’re unable to operate an actual telephone book or read a paper map. I even make my living doing all kinds of Millennial-y things like blogging and writing for online publications. But I also went to a solid journalism school that instilled me with plenty of old-old-school values, many of which I don’t think are forgiving when it comes to lifting another person’s writing or insights without also admitting where you got them.

    In the absence of any bright-line rule regarding taking from online sources, however, I do think it’s appropriate for news establishments to continue weeding out writers who borrow too heavily from others without acknowledging the original material.

    Mash-ups like “Auto-Tune the News” are hilarious and valuable for entertainment purposes, but “remixing the news” can be a dangerous practice that will only drag down the quality and reputation of the journalism profession.

    Sara Libby is a writer and editor in Los Angeles. She blogs at http://trueslant.com/saralibby/, where an earlier version of this essay first appeared.

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    Hey! Look What I Wrote!

    Eileen Bayer writes...

    "Mike - Could you PLEASE interject some common sense and logic into today's plagiarism headlines??? I would LOVE to hear your take on the matter!!"
    Hello Eileen - I don’t know about common sense, but here’s my analysis of the situation. (I hope to God someone hasn’t already written this.)

    Regarding the charges of plagiarism, I really don’t know. All I know for sure is that Mrs. Trump is absolutely, positively guilty of standing before the country and reading words she didn’t write as if they were own. I also know that Mrs. Obama is guilty of doing the same thing. Both women - along with their husbands - have stood proudly before a national audience and pretended the words they read originated with them - knowing full well they did not.

    Let’s consider for a moment, the weird reality of speechwriters in our political discourse. Why do we tolerate them? Why do we permit our leaders to pretend that someone else’s words are theirs? Moreover, why do we allow them to stand before us and act as if they’re NOT reading from a script, when we know damn well they are? Why - in this - “age of authenticity” - do we accept the artifice of a Teleprompter, and all the other pretenses of earnestness that enable candidates to present themselves as something other than who they really are?

    I always thought the obvious answer was because we’re a lazy and shallow species who value style over substance. But now, it seems I was mistaken. Today, half the country has risen up in righteous indignation because the words of an anonymous speechwriter - words once read by Mrs. Obama as if they were her own - have been co-opted by another anonymous speechwriter, and given to another aspiring First Lady - who also read those same words as if they belonged to her!

    Did either one of them believe what they read? Beats me. No one is talking about what was said. Only about how they said it.

    What we know for sure - is that neither one of them wrote the words they spoke.

    The real question is, do we truly care? Personally, I do. But not as much as I care about the underlying Kabuki that now informs the whole election process.

    On the other hand, the right words do matter, regardless of where they originate. I remember, in the wake of the Challenger disaster, Ronald Regan gave a truly extraordinary speech. Every sentence was brilliant, but this part was unforgettable.

    “We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them this morning, as they prepared for their journey, waved goodbye, and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.”

    I was 22 at the time, and I literally cried when I heard those words. I was truly touched. Later, I learned those words had been written for Reagan by Peggy Noonan. After that, I learned Peggy Noonan had lifted those words from a poem called “High Flight,” written by an airman who died in WWII named John McGee.

    Did Ronald Reagan plagiarize Peggy Noonan? Did Peggy Noonan plagiarize John McGee?

    Sorry Eileen - I’m afraid the answers are beyond my pay grade. But these questions did get me thinking about my favorite speech writer - a guy named Peter who made his bones in the Johnson administration.

    If you have 5 minutes to kill, I wrote a short mystery about what finally got this amazing writer fired from The White House. It’s called Rose Garden Rubbish, and while I plagiarized the title, the story is totally mine. (Mostly.) http://mikerowe.com/podcast/


    So from what I understand in one paragraph or so Melania Trump said basically the same thing Michelle Obama said which turns out to be the same things my dad told me when I was a kid long before 2008. So either everyone plagiarized it from my dad or it's such a common sentiment that it makes no real difference.
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