[ConservativeStatement]

Holier-than-thou type falling flat on her Crimson colored face.

[paulat]

‘‘It’s possible that she saw other cartoonists’ work and inadvertently used them,’’ he said of Breeden.

I can understand "inadvertantly" using a word or a phrase...but a whole DRAWING?

[paulat]

inadvertantly = inadvertently

spellcheck is my friend...spellcheck is my friend....

[SandRat]

What is it with the Globe and Plagiarism?????

Oh that's right Liberals don't have original thoughts they just parrot lines from Che Guevara or Mao or Marx or Lenin or Trotsky or Chomsky.

[latina4dubya]

cheater, cheater pumpkin eater...

[AmishDude]

The Mike Barnicle school of journalism.

[Fiddlstix]

Plagiarism is a bit more difficult nowadays what with the Internet and all.......it looks like.

[F-117A]

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.

Has she been hired by the New York Times yet?

[TheMole]

... one by Walt Handelsman of Newsday and another by Stephen Breen of the San Diego Union-Tribune.

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.

[Squeako]

It's a Ziggy!!!

[Polonius]

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.

[Lancey Howard]

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.

[caseinpoint]

Same thing happened in my college days but I managed to stop the publication beforehand. I was a student editor on the college paper when I saw the editorial page editor preparing a political cartoon for publication. I took it to the faculty advisor and told him the cartoon supposedly prepared by a student was an almost exact ripoff of a Pat Oliphant cartoon. He asked me to document it. I checked with the library and found the Oliphant cartoon collection book had been checked out (gee, I wonder who might have it?) so I had my folks copy it from our copy and send it to me while the faculty advisor held up publication of the student cartoon. I then produced the cartoon and left it up to the faculty member to deal with the student. But if I recall, it was the end of his publishing career in our university paper and perhaps at our school. And that is how it should have been. There was nothing "inadvertent" about that cartoon.