<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by car copy: This guy "plagairized" himself. He wrote the words before, and now, in looking at a past event, an anniversary, or something? he plagairized himself? Does that mean he stole something from himself? Or the newspaper? Or is he just lazy? Which party (not implying the reader) is this crime against. I'm not saying the reporter wasnt wrong. Also, what if he had written it for the same paper years ago... and "re-used" his words? Same thing? Same plagairism charge? Or not? Just curious.<hr></blockquote><p>I think the idea is that there's an unwritten assumption/contract/assertion to the reader that a column is original material. Columnists have devices to which they return (e.g., Royko's Grobnik), but I think it's fair to assume that readers assume the substance of a column is new material from the columnist.<p>The Nick Nolte character recycled a column at the beginning of the 1994 movie "I Love Trouble."<p>[ April 25, 2004: Message edited by: Todd J. Behme ]</p>
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