Dancing Around What Most Would Call Lying
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By Bristol Herald Courier Editorial Board
Published: May 18, 2009
When we were in elementary school, public school teachers beat a simple lesson into their charges’ heads: Plagiarism is lying. We were taught a simple rule – if you use more than three words, in order, of another person’s work, you need to attribute it.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is failing the lesson, after admitting to “inadvertently using a blogger’s words as her own” in her Sunday column. That’s how politely The Associated Press put it on Monday. The story dances around what our elementary school teachers, college professors and working journalists would call lying.
Read more on the opinion page of the Tuesday, May 19, 2009, edition of the Bristol Herald Courier.
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