Posted on 02/16/2010 4:32:24 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
EDITORS' NOTE
In a number of business articles in The Times over the past year, and in posts on the DealBook blog on NYTimes.com, a Times reporter appears to have improperly appropriated wording and passages published by other news organizations.
The reporter, Zachery Kouwe, reused language from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and other sources without attribution or acknowledgment.
The Times was alerted to the problem by editors at The Wall Street Journal. They pointed out extensive similarities between a Journal article, first published on The Journal’s Web site around 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 5, and a DealBook post published two hours later, as well as a related article published in The Times on Feb. 6.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Is this news?
“All the news that’s fit to print ... from other newspapers.”
It was huge when Jayson Blair did it and it is even more so now with a guy on their roster ripping off the WSJ nearly every day.
I guess it’s time for the Times to bring back the “average man on the street” plant. So that they will have something original.
This seems to be a regular event at the once great “Gray Lady”. It’s what happens when ideology becomes more important than truth, journalistic integrity and good business sense.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens when the NYT collides with the monster berg waiting for it.
The New York Times: All the news that’s fit to STEAL!
Well.... at least the reporter had a believable source.
I’m sure one thing he did not steal is his name
Breaking news. The Times is broke.
Notable by its absence is the key word: “plagiarism.”
“Well.... at least the reporter had a believable source.”
Hahahahaha. It was probably one of the few stories based on facts from the nyt.
Has Zach gotten the axe yet?
Resigned, per HuffPo...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/16/zachery-kouwe-suspended-n_n_464677.html
I look at it this way, when the Times plagiarizes, at least there is a chance it will print the truth.
No one noticed until he accidently "cut-and-pasted" the word "freedom" from the WSJ...
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