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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Lest we forget Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 4:05 am
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	At least two prominent plagiarists past have been overlooked during the hand-wringing over Jayson Blair.<p>Mark Hornung, editorial page editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, was caught plagiarizing a Washington Post editorial in February 1995. His punishment was to be promoted to vice president of circulation. He lately has been pubisher of the Daily Southtown in Chicago.<p>Rinker Buck, who admitted in his book "First Job" that he submitted a college paper he did not write and submitted a portfolio of photographs he did not take when he applied for his first newspaper job, apparently still writes for the Hartford, Conn., Courant.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: Lest we forget Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 3:53 am
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	Fox Butterfield, Boston bureau chief for The New York Times, took five paragraphs from a Boston Globe story about, ironically, plagiarism committed in a commencement address by H. Joachim Maitre, Boston University's dean of the College of Communications. Butterfield's prose was very similar to the Globe's; a few words were changed, a few rearranged. Butterfield got a one-week suspension and remained the bureau chief. (Columbia Journalism Review) <p>***I'm slipping. I clean forgot about Fox Butterfield. "Ironically," Maitre is back in the news.***<p>[ May 28, 2003: Message edited by: blanp ]</p>
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ADKbrown	Post subject: Re: Lest we forget Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 5:51 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	Many years ago, I happened to read "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" and Hunter Thompson's "Hells Angels" back to back. There is a passage in Wolfe's book that is more or less lifted from Thompson's. Not verbatim, but the descriptions are very similar. Adjectives were replaced with synonyms; that sort of thing. Wolfe gives a general credit to Thompson, among others, in the front of the book, but I was shocked to discover such plagiarism, if that's what it is, committed by a well-known author. (I was young at the time.)
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Matthew Grieco	Post subject: Re: Lest we forget Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 10:31 pm
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 2266 Location: New Jersey	Isn't Thompson just Wolfe on more drugs anyway?
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