May 18th 09, 04:07 AM
((Kingacy, named after Michael King, who plaigarized his way to a
doctorate, means usurping the literary works of another without
attribution. Bret.))
Dowd lifts TPM passage; updates NYT column
A TPMCafe blogger charged plagiarism earlier after picking up on a
striking similarity between a passage in Maureen Dowd's column today
and a recent post by TPM editor Josh Marshall.
Dowd: "More and more the timeline is raising the question of why,
if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen
mainly during the period when the Bush crowd was looking for what was
essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq."
Marshall: "More and more the timeline is raising the question of
why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to
happen mainly during the period when we were looking for what was
essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq."
Since then, Dowd's column has been updated with a reference to
Marshall and notes that there hadn't been proper attribution in the
original Times piece.
While it might be assumed that Dowd accidentally cut-and-pasted the
passage in her notes, and forgot the attribution, she tells Huffington
Post that she never actually read Marshall's item. So how did it wind
up on today's op-ed page?
i was talking to a friend of mine Friday about what I was writing
who suggested I make this point, expressing it in a cogent -- and I
assumed spontaneous -- way and I wanted to weave the idea into my
column.
but, clearly, my friend must have read josh marshall without
mentioning that to me. we're fixing it on the web, to give josh
credit, and will include a note, as well as a formal correction
tomorrow.
So Dowd unknowingly quoted Marshall without attribution, while
assuming she was knowingly quoting a friend without attribution -- a
friend who apparently has a great memory for remembering TPM posts
verbatim and feeding them to Times columnists.
UPDATE: A reader points out that it was Dowd who reported on Joe Biden
plagiarizing a British political leader in 1987.
UPDATE 2: Bloggasm reached out to Marshall and the TPM blogger, both
of whom wished not to comment.
UPDATE 3: Dowd responded to POLITICO by email: "Its a friend I talk to
by phone and email; I just had no idea that point was josh's; josh is
now credited on the web in my column and I asked [editorial page
editor Andy Rosenthal] to do another formal correction. And I owe him
lunch."
In a follow-up email, I asked Dowd if it's common practice to take a
passage from a friend and weave it into her column. I haven't yet
received a response but will update when I do. " <<
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0509/Dowd_lifts_TPM_passage_updates_column.html?showall
doctorate, means usurping the literary works of another without
attribution. Bret.))
Dowd lifts TPM passage; updates NYT column
A TPMCafe blogger charged plagiarism earlier after picking up on a
striking similarity between a passage in Maureen Dowd's column today
and a recent post by TPM editor Josh Marshall.
Dowd: "More and more the timeline is raising the question of why,
if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen
mainly during the period when the Bush crowd was looking for what was
essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq."
Marshall: "More and more the timeline is raising the question of
why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to
happen mainly during the period when we were looking for what was
essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq."
Since then, Dowd's column has been updated with a reference to
Marshall and notes that there hadn't been proper attribution in the
original Times piece.
While it might be assumed that Dowd accidentally cut-and-pasted the
passage in her notes, and forgot the attribution, she tells Huffington
Post that she never actually read Marshall's item. So how did it wind
up on today's op-ed page?
i was talking to a friend of mine Friday about what I was writing
who suggested I make this point, expressing it in a cogent -- and I
assumed spontaneous -- way and I wanted to weave the idea into my
column.
but, clearly, my friend must have read josh marshall without
mentioning that to me. we're fixing it on the web, to give josh
credit, and will include a note, as well as a formal correction
tomorrow.
So Dowd unknowingly quoted Marshall without attribution, while
assuming she was knowingly quoting a friend without attribution -- a
friend who apparently has a great memory for remembering TPM posts
verbatim and feeding them to Times columnists.
UPDATE: A reader points out that it was Dowd who reported on Joe Biden
plagiarizing a British political leader in 1987.
UPDATE 2: Bloggasm reached out to Marshall and the TPM blogger, both
of whom wished not to comment.
UPDATE 3: Dowd responded to POLITICO by email: "Its a friend I talk to
by phone and email; I just had no idea that point was josh's; josh is
now credited on the web in my column and I asked [editorial page
editor Andy Rosenthal] to do another formal correction. And I owe him
lunch."
In a follow-up email, I asked Dowd if it's common practice to take a
passage from a friend and weave it into her column. I haven't yet
received a response but will update when I do. " <<
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0509/Dowd_lifts_TPM_passage_updates_column.html?showall