http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/plagiarism/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:45:29 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418938/posts In all the joy of the holiday season, sometimes journalists can miss out on stories involving Grinches and Scrooges. Shortly before Christmas Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) dropped one of the most outlandish statements of the year, if not the decade, and most in the press missed it. However, one member of the press has decided to agree with the crazy talk. Surprise, surprise… “They [the GOP] are desperate to break this president. They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama. The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and... David Horowitz's NewsRealblog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418938/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:45:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399700/posts The Journal has a Jayson Blair moment. The Wall Street Journal is having a Jayson Blair moment. The paper just announced that it is pulling a Nov. 10 "New Global Indian" column because the freelancer who wrote it, Mona Sarika, plagiarized several sources and attributed stolen quotes to made-up names. Mona's bio on her Huffington Post blogger profile describes her as "a graduate student and freelance writer who hails from India and currently lives in New York City." Here's the announcement: Nov. 10 "New Global Indian" online column by New York City freelance writer Mona Sarika has been found to... The Business Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399700/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:36:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380759/posts Yesterday, the White House announced that it was removing Alma Thomas’ plagiaristic piece “Watusi (Hard Edge)” from its walls. The White House announced that the painting was moved “because it didn’t fit the space right.” The Washington Post pointed out that posters at FreeRepublic.com had examined the similarity between “Watusi (Hard Edge)” and Henri Matisse’s “The Snail” (1953), ignoring the fact that Big Hollywood actually broke the story. The Washington Post covered for the White House, explaining, “Stephens’s explanation makes sense because it is inconceivable that the White House’s art experts would imagine Thomas’s painting was fraudulent or a copy... bighollywood.breitbart.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380759/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:20:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378715/posts .SNIPARTnews has reported that the White House has quietly de-listed a painting by Alma W. Thomas that it chose last month, among some 45 pieces borrowed from several Washington museums, to decorate the private White House residence and the West and East Wings. Titled, “Watusi (Hard Edge)” from 1963, the work takes a Matisse collage and, as Holland Cotter wrote in The New York Times, praising the selection, “shifts the pieces around, cools the colors down, and adds a title that refers to a Chubby Checker song.” “But through copying Matisse,” Mr. Cotter added, “she began to work out a... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378715/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:20:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2377190/posts Federal Judge Disregards Eleven Years of Material Facts In Bob Dylan Inringement Suit http://jamesdamiano.yolasite.com/ The James Damiano Story James Damiano.yolasite.com Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2377190/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 05:57:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2373492/posts No closure in Bob Dylan Infringement Law Suit New York 10/29/09 Few artists can lay claim to the controversy that has surrounded the career of songwriter James Damiano. Twenty-two years ago James Damiano began an odyssey that led him into a legal maelstrom with Bob Dylan that, to this day, fascinates the greatest of intellectual minds. Read Press Release http://jamesdamiano.yolasite.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2373492/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:06:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366106/posts Given all the blogosphere speculation about Bill Ayers ghostwriting for Obama, one major development at the end of September threatened to break the story wide open. Christopher Andersen has just published a fascinating new book: Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage... After Obama had to give up on a $150,000 Simon & Schuster contract because he couldn’t complete the manuscript, his sources were telling him Obama finally had to bring in a ghostwriter... I have been watching this story evolve for over a year. I did nothing until Christopher Andersen blathered on Hannity. And I saw the stricken... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366106/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:44:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2365668/posts Bob Dylan Retains Same Law Firm as George W. Bush in Fifteen Year Plagiarism Law Suit. Also suppresses Plaintiff’s First Amendment Rights acquiring a protective order designating all video taped depositions that are incriminating to Dylan confidential Bob Dylan retains Illuminati Law firm http://jamesdamiano.yolasite.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2365668/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:28:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2357750/posts Yesterday, the NYT ran a story about the White House acquiring art. It included a slide show of a dozen artworks. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/arts/design/07borrow.html?_r=1 This Freeper took a look and found one abstract work he admired:"Watusi (Hard Edge)," by Alma Thomas, a longtime Washington resident who is an African-American painter. Photo: Gift of Vincent Melzac/Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. As I admired it, I thought it reminiscent, even derivative of a favorite artwork of mine by Matisse. I recall seeing that one decades ago at the Tate Gallery in London. A giant collage (about ten feet tall) from late in Matisse's life,... Freeper Investigation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2357750/posts#comment Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:05:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2351422/posts Barack Obama has displayed a disturbing pattern of work ethics: shirking work; claiming success when he was not entitled to do so; hiding his failures; and claiming the work of others as his own -- when it was successful. These are not character traits that we should associate with Presidents. Barack Obama won praise for Dreams From My Father, a 1995 memoir of his life that was published when he reached the grand old age of thirty-four. The provenance of the book has come into question, led by a series of American Thinker columns by Jack Cashill, who used textual... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2351422/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:36:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320288/posts Jayson Blair knows his new profession — life coach — smacks some people in the face like a bad punchline. "People say, 'Wait a minute. You're a life coach?' That makes no sense,'" says Blair, the ex-journalist best known for foisting plagiarism and fabrications into the pages of The New York Times. "Then they think about my life experiences and what I've been through and they say 'Wait a minute. It does make sense.'" Blair, 33, resigned from the Times in 2003, leaving a journalistic scandal in his wake. The resulting furor led the paper's top two newsroom executives to... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320288/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:36:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2317114/posts Bob Dylan Retains Same Illuminati Law Firm as George W. Bush in Fifteen Year Plagiarism Law Suit. Also suppresses Plaintiff’s First Amendment Rights acquiring a protective order designating all video taped depositions that are incriminating to Dylan confidential JamesDamiano.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2317114/posts#comment Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:49:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309863/posts LOS ANGELES: Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is being sued for a whopping $1 trillion by author Damon Lloyd Goffe for plagiarism, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton has claimed on his website. Goffe is suing Winfrey and her production company, Harpo, for allegedly stealing material from his work, 'A Tome of Poetry' and publishing it under her name with the title 'Pieces of My Soul', according to Hilton. In the legal documents filed in court, Goffe claims that the talk show host admitted to the thievery last year. The New York based author has claimed that since Oprah sold over 650... Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309863/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:45:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2298698/posts Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., fighting to salvage his Presidential campaign, today acknowledged ''a mistake'' in his youth, when he plagiarized a law review article for a paper he wrote in his first year at law school. Mr. Biden insisted, however, that he had done nothing ''malevolent,'' that he had simply misunderstood the need to cite sources carefully. And he asserted that another controversy, concerning recent reports of his using material from others' speeches without attribution, was ''much ado about nothing.'' Mr. Biden, the 44-year-old Delaware Democrat who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee, addressed these issues at the Capitol in... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2298698/posts#comment Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:26:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272441/posts LONDON (Reuters) – Bloomsbury Publishing Plc on Monday denied allegations that author J.K. Rowling copied "substantial parts" of a book by another children's author when she wrote "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." (snip) "The allegations of plagiarism made today, Monday 15 June 2009, by the Estate of Adrian Jacobs are unfounded, unsubstantiated and untrue," said a statement from Bloomsbury, which publishes Harry Potter in Britain. "This claim is without merit and will be defended vigorously." (snip) "The Estate is also seeking a court order against J.K. Rowling herself for pre-action disclosure in order to determine whether to join... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272441/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:15:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268362/posts AP Picks Up Huff-Po Blogger's Lame Smear Alleging Palin Plagiarism By Warner Todd Huston (Bio | Archive) June 9, 2009 - 06:43 ET If you would like a great example of how the Old Media takes a story that has no legitimacy at all and uses it as the basis for a smear job, the Associated Press offered a wonderful sampling of the tactic for you on June 8. From a headline that makes the issue seem more weighty than it is, to the lack of competent reporting from both sides of the matter, AP employed this favorite Old Media... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268362/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 23:47:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266901/posts Geoffrey Dunn breathlessly reports at the Huffington Post that Palin committed “pure unadulterated plagiarism”...well, actually, that’s what he said yesterday. Today he scrubbed that statement. He's up in arms about the speech that Gov. Palin gave in Anchorage last week at the Michael Reagan event. Dunn writes:While Palin twice mentioned Gingrich in the speech (she never once acknowledged Shirley), virtually every single reference she made to Reagan was looks to be lifted directly from the Gingrich-Shirley article. The article has been scrubbed. It used to include this sentence at the end of the above paragraph:It’s a pure case of unadulterated... Conservatives4Palin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266901/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 02:14:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2253704/posts In many ways, Maureen Dowd and Joshua Micah Marshall personify new and old media. One is former political reporter and venerable columnist who dispenses bon mots from the New York Times editorial page once a week. The other is a blogging wunderkind who has blazed a trail with the liberal TalkingPointsMemo site. So when thejoshuablog (who's not Marshall) blogged over the weekend that Dowd had lifted, almost word for word, a slab of text from a blog by Marshall last week it was inevitable it would become a big deal. Unfortunately for Dowd, the furore shows little sign of abating... Telegraph Blogs (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2253704/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 05:09:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253429/posts The strangest thing about Josh Marshall’s observation on the suspicious timing of enhanced interrogations is not that Maureen Dowd’s friend passed it off as her own before Maureen Dowd did the same; it’s that anyone would want to take credit for this bit of illogical paranoia. Here’s the twice-published line: Commentary Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253429/posts#comment Mon, 18 May 2009 20:43:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252944/posts I added the question mark to be on the safe side but there’s really no doubt about it. Josh Marshall, writing at TPM on Thursday: 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. And Dowd, today: 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... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252944/posts#comment Mon, 18 May 2009 01:24:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253055/posts NEW YORK — New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has admitted to using a paragraph virtually word-for-word from a prominent liberal blogger without attribution. Dowd acknowledged the error in an e-mail to The Huffington Post on Sunday, the Web site reported. The Times corrected her column online to give proper credit for the material to Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall. FOX News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253055/posts#comment Mon, 18 May 2009 06:34:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252916/posts NEW YORK It was a wild Sunday for New York Times columnist. It opened with her latest column in the newspaper, which closed by declaring that she had once opposed a wide-ranging probe of the uses of torture, and who authorized and knew about it, during the Bush administration but now favored it. This brought some praise liberal news sites and bloggers often critical of Dowd. But by mid-afternoon she was on the hot seat for using a paragraph almost word-for-word from one of the most prominent liberal bloggers, Jost Marshall of Talking Points Memo, without attribution. Charges of "plagiarism"... Editor and Publisher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252916/posts#comment Mon, 18 May 2009 00:18:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252898/posts Maureen Dowd in today's NY Times: "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." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17dowd.html?_r=1 (click image for bigger pic) TPM's Josh Marshall on Thurs: "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... tpm http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252898/posts#comment Sun, 17 May 2009 23:44:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2238820/posts Ward Churchill Redux? by: Deborah Lambert, April 27, 2009 The Ward Churchill saga is far from over. After the U. of Colorado prof was fired for plagiarism, a jury ruled that he was the victim of a “wrongful firing suit,” according to the AP and other sources. Churchill was elated by the latest turn of events, and reiterated his firing for plagiarism was “just a cover, adding that he never would have been fired if he hadn’t called the World Trade Center victims ‘little Eichmanns.’” All Churchill wants is to be reinstated at his old job. However, he’ll have to... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2238820/posts#comment Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:25:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237591/posts She first made national headlines when a hangman's noose was found dangling from her Columbia University office door. Now, Madonna Constantine, the controversial former Teachers College professor fired last year for plagiarism, is resurrecting the image with a $200 million lawsuit that charges her former employer with an "academic lynching." The strongly worded, 92-page claim -- which veers into spy-time territory with its allegations of coverups, evidence destruction and conspiratorial "schemes" -- was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday. A spokesman for Teachers College said the case was "totally without merit, and we intend to defend against it vigorously." Constantine's... NEW YORK POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237591/posts#comment Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:29:44 GMT