Jill Abramson, former editor of the NY Times, has written a book about modern journalism, calling for a maintenance of high standards... and then the book got called out for plagiarism. And now she says mistakes were made.
What is wrong with these people? This came from a major publisher - Simon & Schuster.
Professors have software for catching plagiarists. It's used at many colleges. Couldn't Simon & Schuster spring for such software?
Enough publishers have been caught like this - with celebrity authors - that they ought to have the sense to protect themselves.
I wonder if celebrity authors are a little more inclined to pull this nonsense because many of them have fallen prey to a sense of invulnerability that can come with high status.
No matter how great your renown,
Though you soar way up high with the birds,
If you steal other writers' words
They will angrily shoot you down.
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