Is it considered plagiarism when you simply restate a fact? I would think that every journalist would be in jeopardy if that is the case.
And still... no one challenges the message, they only attack the messanger.
When you're speaking to incidents of fact there are only a few ways to phrase it.
The dog jumped over the fence.
The canine hurdled the barrier doesn't exactly say the same thing.
in a book with HUNDREDS or sources noted, I would not count one or two missed quotes as example of plagerism.
I mean look at the rest of the book- why would she quote hundreds of sources, and then plgerize these two statements?
This is hillarious. I just looked up the quote "The massive Dickey-Lincoln Dam" and found out that the Portland Newspaper was quoting an article in Townhall. Ann Coulter is a guest writer in Townhall, so she is being accused of plagerizing her own work.
Meanwhile, for his campaign kickoff, Joe Biden will be doing The Gettysburg Address.
So if CNN uses the same language to report the same incident as MSNBC, that's plagerism?
Boy, all media is in BIG trouble.
It is simple...
Ms. Coulter is right
The Coulter haters are wrong...That includes you Mr. 'sensitive' Billy O!
In a book so thoroughly end-noted (My only criticism is USE FOOTNOTES!....please), these two examples are silly, their highlighting is trite, and the haters simply need to:
SFU
SFD
Cheers,
Top sends
This has to be the stupidest Ann Coulter bashing article yet.
If they play true to form, the libs will next peg Anne as a criminal by hanging something (anything) on her.
Just finished the book. Its worth reading.
You'll note that her attackers mainly attack her; they don't engage the content.
"So, is Coulter a plagiarist?" - Kevin Aylward
"So, is Coulter a plagiarist?" - The Rude Pundit
I guess Aylward is a plagiarist since he said the EXACT SAME THING someone else did.
I wonder, does anyone know what time it is? Uh oh, was that phrase ever stated before?? Am I now a plagiarist?
I think the term is being used way too loosely.
It is one thing to take a speech and present it as your own (See Senator Biden - still in office) and to include a phrase in a book that coincidentally has been produced previously in someone else's writing.
The upside of this, it will increase her book circulation as the rumors swirl and the media starts asking her about it and she gets to break out more of her verbal carpet bombs.
First, a sentence or two would not be plagiarism in an entire book. Second, the book is well footnoted and I don't have it in front of me but I'll bet that at least the first sentence listed here has a footnote to the appropriate source. Three, this guy is a moron.
Ann is being accused of plagerizing excerpts from her own book!!!
The 1st one is interesting in that it is nearly word-for-word with the Portland Press article with the exception of the past tense "was."
My question is this: if a reporter describes something that happens, and then it happens, is it plagiarism to say that X happened?
If I say: "My dog, who has been my friend for years, is dying.", and someone writes a follow-up on me, and says, "His dog, who has been his friend for years, DIED." is that plagiarism? Or is it follow-up of an already reported situation?
This is pretty weak if this is all they've got.
Next.
Screeew the left wing sandbaggers. They should be looking at honest Al Gore.