On 11 Aug 2012 at 8:41, Ken Steele wrote: > I am stunned also by the admitted plagiarism by Fareed Zakaria. > I found his editorials on his CNN show - GPS - to be very thoughtful.
To defend the indefensible (not an easy task here), there's a bit of wiggle room for Zakaria, which he chose not to take in his apology. The key is an astute observation by Marga in the comment section following the NYTimes article [ http://snipurl.com/24mfe43 ] which Mike Palij flagged (Note all my attributions!]. Marga pointed out that there's a double attribution involved, and Zakaria should have cited Lepore citing Winkler, which is clumsy at best. Zakaria may have thought he was just cutting out the clutter and going back to the primary source. Secondary sources are often valuable as clues to the primary literature, and we don't have to credit them for the tip (unless the true source is _really_ obscure). The critical question in the Zakaria case is whether his version resembles Winkler's (the primary source) at least as much as it does Lepore's. Would we have objected if Zakaria had used Lepore to get to Winkler, and then instead of paraphrasing, quoted Winkler exactly, using quotation marks? Without a nod to Lepore? That would have been more prudent of him, I'd think. Of course, the cited plagiarized passage is just an example, and there may be more plagiarism in Zakaria's writing which doesn't involve double attributions. Stephen -------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca --------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=19659 or send a blank email to leave-19659-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
