News In Other Plagiarists…
posted by November 28 at 12:31 PM
onIt seems the State Department’s more recent—and very sunny—“Iraq Weekly Status Report” is comprised entirely of sentences and paragraphs lifted word-for-word from mainstream media reports. That would be the same mainstream media that, according to the Laura Bush and Fox News, only reports the bad news about Iraq.
Scroll through and it looks kind of impressive, lots of information — good job keeping on top of the game State Department! But scroll to the bottom and it lists the sources for the information. Now it woulda been nice if they included some footnotes in the body of the document to indicate they were including outside information, but as it turns out the entire thing is basically plagiarized word for word from those news articles, with the slightest of adjustments so as to maybe give the impression it’s in their own words.
Read all about it at Americablog.
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That just proves that someone has placed Benjamin Nicholas on the State Department payroll now, doesn't it?
For a better viewpoint, read the classified report from our embassy.
Still bad. Not getting better.
Laura Bush can keep her damn female mouth shut. She knows she has no place to speak since she is female and a republican. Laura can only speak when George beats her. Now those are TRADITIONAL family values!
Isn't it not plaigarism if they cite the sources?
Was Trent Lott on any committees involved with this report?
Let's not forget Joe Biden, either!
Good god--maybe Biden and Lott are having the illicit affair!
@2: If it's classified, how the hell are we supposed to read it?
@4: It's still plagiarism because they misrepresent others' work as their own. This could get them expelled if they were in college.
During Nam I was a radioman in the Navy and everyday we got a Top Secret message - the daily briefing for the senior officers only from the Defense Dept's intelligence agency. You want to know what it was? Clippings from the NY Times, the Washington Post, Time magazine. Reallly top secret stuff there.
#6 - Ah, but they'd have beautiful kids.
@7 - we just get the unclassified version available in any EU NATO country.
They always send copies.
Most classification, as @8 says, is not for anything that should be classified - I used to have to declassify tons of things.
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