(Minneapolis) Star Tribune editorials under scrutiny (For Plagiarism)

Pioneer Press (St. Paul) ^ | 1 December 2006 | Patrick Condon

[shrinkermd]

MINNEAPOLIS — The Star Tribune said it is reviewing a year's worth of work by one of its editorial-page writers after finding two of his editorials contained similarities to the work of another writer.

Editorial-page editor Susan Albright said the writer, Steve Berg, would not write during the review. She cited two editorials, one from Nov. 10 and one from March 27 that contained phrases from or similarities to commentaries in the New Yorker by Hendrik Hertzberg.

"We want you to know that we are taking this matter very seriously," Albright wrote in a note to readers published Thursday. "We have an obligation to everyone involved to be fair and deliberate in evaluating this; it is too serious a matter to jump to any conclusions without a thorough review."

In an interview, Albright declined to comment beyond the editor's note except to say she hoped to complete the review "with dispatch." Berg, who has worked at the Star Tribune for 30 years, said he couldn't comment during the review.

[shrinkermd]

Plagiarism after thirty years of crafting liberal opinions he ran out of invective and had to steal someone elses's.

[Miss Marple]

Here's a little sign of trouble in Minneapolis.

[Keith in Iowa]

Powerline blog has been all over this: http://powerlineblog.com/archives/016072.php

[mj1234]

I do not think he stole-

HE WAS GIVEN HIS TALKING POINTS!

either from the DNC or the nyslimes

This paper will exonerate him- it is Bush's fault.

[randog]

Who's to say he just started? The Red Star said they're only researching the past year. Plagiarism is an old crime that only rose to prominence when forensic tools (the innernet) improved to the point that the average Joe could be Ace Detective.

[Russ]

I have always known that most liberals have never had an original thought. Further proof of the left's intellectual laziness...

[Tzimisce]

I don't know - liberal opinion is so empty and vacant it's very possible that this guy isn't really committing plagarism and just echoing tired liberal themes and rhetoric.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Is using the writings of others in the same commune really plagerism?

[Ouderkirk]

Give a Liberal a thought and he'll repeat it mindlessly all day. Teach a Liberal to think for himself and he'll vote Republican for the rest of his life.

[Rakkasan1]

like, blah,blah "tax cuts for the rich"
blah,blah, "blood for oil" ,"Bush's war", ect ,etc ?

reminds me of Rush's "gravitas" montage and similar ones...

[Bahbah]

Kudos to the guys at Powerline. This finally got some main stream traction.

[altura]

I don't know that it qualifies as plagerism, but the Dallas Morning News' national news articles are all re-hashes of the New York Times' stuff.

[Enchante]

Demagogues all work from the same talking points - don't see how this is so different from the typical NY Slimes editorial.

[Billthedrill]

Yeah. The part where he wrote about the dictatorship of the proletariat, state ownership of the means of production, and the upcoming massacre of the bourgeoisie was straight Marx.

[L98Fiero]

"HE WAS GIVEN HIS TALKING POINTS!"

My thoughts exactly. I have seen this "plagarism" in lots of places.

[Malesherbes]

Check out the related thread about Columbia Univ. journalism students cheating on an "ethics in journalism" exam.

[Milhous]

I have always known that most liberals have never had an original thought.

A flock of incurious dense parrots.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Ditto the NBC, CBS, ABC nightly nooze.

[geezerwheezer]

Anybody who reads this rag should already know the paper is a rewashing of the DNC talking points anyway. If they had an original thought, it would qualify as a miracle!

[MplsSteve]

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