Regular Plagiarizing Not That Big a Deal at NYT
Last month, Jack Shafer exposed New York Times scribe Alexei Barrionuevo's lifting of two sentences from a Miami Herald story. Since then, somebody's been making use of his Lexis account: Shafer now finds Barrionuevo isn't guilty of just the one infraction. Turns out, he's a borderline serial plagiarizer, lifting others' material since at least 2005. Times managing editor Jill Abramson looked into the "transgression" and responds that "Alexei did not fully understand Times policy." So, just as a PSA: Generally, newspapers do not lift the words of others without credit. All good now?
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