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Publishers post here?

 

Just another Scarlett O'Hara, looking to whip the mule, one more time.

 

obviously you don't care if the person you sleep with shits themselves every night, do you?

 

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That Lynn himself hasn't chimed into this thread so far has GOT to be a record -- and could possibly indicate what is up for him in Bristol. Not saying, just saying ...

rb

 

Let's be honest here.

There was nothing of consequence that was being plagiarized.

Lynn Hoppes copied and pasted some useless information from wikipedia.

We're talking about descriptions of movies or plays, not quotes copied from other writers, made-up information, or stealing other people's work. And when I say "work", I don't need inconsequential wikipedia entries.

Really, in the grand scheme of things, there are much, much bigger fish to fry in the journalism industry than this.

 

I see it more as being "embarrassingly lazy" than being "plagiarism" but I also don't think it's ever OK to cut and paste anything and pass it off as your own. It's pretty low on the plagiarism scale, but any level of plagiarism is never acceptable.

Yeah, there are bigger fish to fry in journalism. I think the next big scandal will be when places start finding out how much stuff has been completely fabricated. Granted, that's extremely difficult to prove, which is why I think it's so widespread these days.

But on no level does that excuse what Hoppes did.

 

Nothing of consequence?
You're a disgrace if you believe what you just posted.

 

Right-on Rhody. It's plagiarism, plain and simple. Stealing someone's ideas? Plagiarism. Stealing the (virtually) exact wording used to describe something, even if it's just historical summary or description? Plagiarism. One may seem worse than the other, but it's all plagiarism. College students get in trouble for this stuff all the time. To excuse it from a journalist, especially one in this position, is shameful. Perhaps there are bigger fish to fry, as you say. But plagiarism in journalism ain't no guppy.

 

Thanks for stopping by, Lynn.

 

I don't always plagiarize, but when I do, I plagiarize from credible sources.

 

Apparently, this is completely off the radar in Bristol. A friend who works there said nobody has even mentioned it and said he'd be stunned if anything happened to Hoppes.

It's possible that the higher-ups are huddling behind the scenes and deciding what course of action to take, but he told me, "That's not usually how things are done around here. If someone is in trouble, everybody usually knows about it."