An Aside On Wegman And Plagiarism

One quickly developing meme in the Wegman Plagiarism case is the whole idea that its all really over-blown, not such a big deal, if an academic work by author X borrowed page upon page from author Y without attribution. Tom Fuller seems to be of that opinion. As Tom in his pre-Examiner days used to be a real journalist, it may be useful to remind him what happens when plagiarism occurs in that context:

Sun Media regrets that it is ending the daily Advice Guy column, but we’re compelled to do so after learning the columnist used material in a recent column published by another source.

-The Editors

Note that Sun Media is a chain of Canadian tabloids, occasionally forced to deny that they publish hate speech. But, in the end, they have standards. Tom seems to think these standards are too rigid for academe.

PS. The fellow whose column was terminated was picked in a "nationwide competition". He was the second choice, the first one apparently not working out either. Maybe this journalism thing-cranking out words day after day after day--is harder than it looks.

Mike Puffy?

Picture is From here (Canoe.ca). Dig the file name. No I did not rename it. This guy caught it first

Sun Gone Down?

In all the recent stories and counter-stories
the fate of the Sun Chain of tabloid newspapers, people seem to have forgotten that 24 hours, the Sun's apparently successful free counterpart, has issues of its own.

(PS. I hear the Post is set to go TU anytime now. I've been hearing that for awhile, but when you drive by the place every morning and see Andrew Coyne selling pencils out of a little cup, that's gotta mean something, right?)