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November 29, 2004
An (ir)reverence for sources
Observing, "IT'S NOT PLAGIARISM when you repeat stuff from a press release without checking it -- but it's not journalism, either. It's not even very good punditry," Glenn Reynolds links to Patterico's analysis of the latest NYT misuse of sources. This one, like the dodgy dossier (and no, I'm never going to let go of that one, so quit snickering), not only plagiarizes but also misrepresents sources--here, by distortion through decontextualization. Yuck.
Posted by senioritis at November 29, 2004 06:10 PM