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January 08, 2005
Not a joke
I laugh at a lot of our culture's hysteria about plagiarism and fraud--especially the popular notion that it's been newly invented and is a sign of contemporary moral decay. Yet I'm as capable as the next person of getting upset when I see serious issues, ones that can and should be addressed, such as the government's purchase of putatively independent journalists, to shill controversial government policy. Just because not everything about plagiarism and fraud is serious and important doesn't mean a lot of it isn't--even when it's not new. Because a lot of it is. Serious and important. Check?
Posted by senioritis at January 8, 2005 11:40 PM