On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I guess the MRC won't be satisfied until every news shop sounds exactly > like > > Fixed Noise and the Daily Rupert. > > I completely disagree with this statement. It's one thing to complain > about tone or what have you. It's quite another to lift an entire > paragraph. I don't care who the hell finds it. This was a > spectacularly blatant example of plagiarism. Zakaria should be lucky > he's only parked for a month. > Well, it perhaps we can just say that it is true both that the MRC wants all television news to tow the conservative Republican line, AND that Zakaria's plagiarism was blatant and acceptable. As I understand it Zakaria has admitted the offense and apologized for it, and accepted the punishment. Based on what we know I think the punishment is about right. I assume CNN and Time will complete a hard target search of all of his published and broadcast writings over the last X years to check for any additional instances. If this is part of a consistent pattern, then he probably should not be allowed to come back. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
