Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby Problem
Once a plagiarizer, always a plagiarizer?
Noted Boston Globe plagiarizer Jeff Jacoby is said to be at it again. Jacoby, an op-ed columnist who's been suspended in the past for "serious journalistic misconduct" (read: "he recycled, without attribution in his column, the work of others") after ripping off a WSJ piece, now stands accused of reproducing another writer's work.
His column yesterday, "The fights on the right," sounds remarkably similar to a May piece in the WSJ's Opinion Journal titled "The Conservative Mind." So unfortunate, too, when you consider we normally have to turn on cable news to meet our quota of recycled rhetoric.
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This is an old story, but I take offense to you tarring Jeff with the plagiarism brush when you have nothing to back it up with. This was never ever debated as any sort of issue, it's the first time I've heard about it, and the two columns are distinctly disparate. There's no law against two people having similar ideas. This is no case of plagiarism and you should consider your own integrity in erroneously reporting something you consider to be your opinion…as fact.
Of course, I'm not accusing you of plagiarism. Just fabricating something out of complete nothingness. It's the liberal thing to do.
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