Posted on 10/30/2006 8:37:57 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
A Harvard student newspaper cartoonist has been suspended from the paper and two of her cartoons retracted after editors learned of their resemblance to ones published in other media outlets.
Harvard Crimson staffers found four cartoons by Kathleen Breeden, a sophomore, bore striking similarity to cartoons shown on a website that compiles cartoons from around the world. Crimson editors found that two of the four cartoons were inappropriately similar to two on the website, one by Walt Handelsman of Newsday and another by Stephen Breen of the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Breeden could not be reached for comment Monday. Both Handelsman and Breen said in telephone interviews that they planned to take no action against the student cartoonist or the newspaper.
The incident comes less than a week after Harvard Crimson staffers said they discovered that a columnist, Victoria Ilyinsky, had failed to cite literary references that she had lifted from a column posted to the online magazine Slate. Crimson editors terminated Ilyinsky’s column and retracted the problematic article from the paper’s online archives.
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I can understand "inadvertantly" using a word or a phrase...but a whole DRAWING?
inadvertantly = inadvertently
spellcheck is my friend...spellcheck is my friend....
cheater, cheater pumpkin eater...
Christian news and commentary at: sacredscoop.com ...
The Mike Barnicle school of journalism.
Plagiarism is a bit more difficult nowadays what with the Internet and all.......it looks like.
What is it with the Globe and Plagiarism?????
My friends couldn't get away with that in Confession at St. Pius Parish. The Parish Priest was a hard bitten WWII Combat Marine, then he became a Priest and that's the way he ran the Parish; BY THE BOOK, MCRD style.
Where you can learn to inadvertently slip others hard earned works into your own, you can learn to inadvertently demand money from tellers at gunpoint, you can learn to inadvertently sneak into the teachers office and slip the test questions into your pocket, you cn learn to inadvert4endlty ... Sign me up quick.
The Crimson is a College Sub Paper of the Globe.
Has she been hired by the New York Times yet?
Those are not exactly obscure publications. Handelsman is a rather celebrated cartoonist, I believe originally from England and once with the British humor magazine Punch. Copying stuff like that was not only wrong but dumb dumb dumb. You obviously don't have to be that much of a brainiac to get into Harvard.
Really? When did the Globe/NYT buy Harvard's ~135yo newspaper?
It's a Ziggy!!!
If the editors really believe Breeden plagiarized her cartoons, they should have simply fired her outright. That kind of behavior needs to be rooted out ruthlessly if a news outlet wants to keep its credibility.
The Boston Globe? Oh, wait! That's that paper that ripped off a fake story about US troops raping Iraqi women and prisoners that originally appeared in an Egyptian newspaper and stole photos from a porn website.
Huh. It sounds like this cartoonist was simply preparing herself to someday join a dying, socialist "mainstream" liberal newsroom somewhere. I'm sure the New York Times would love to take affirmative action to hire a female cartoonist if they could find one. How could they resist? And if she's a lesbian, she'd be virtually unfireable.
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