DUmmy Pitt is appalled that one of his anti-American leftist buddies was outed as a serial plagiarist.
In Pitt's opinion, it's the worst thing one can do.
You may also remember that it's one of Pitt's literary methods.
He was so proud of Michael Moore quoting from one of his anti-American screeds, only to be caught plagiarizing the part Moore quoted.
Pitt's reaction to being caught?
Good eye. "Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright." - Sam Seborn. I ain't great, but I definitely nabbed the line.
So now the current incident:
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 12:33 PM
Star Member WilliamPitt (56,850 posts)
Chris Hedges has been accused of serious, serial plagiarism
The Troubling Case of Chris Hedges
Pulitzer winner. Lefty hero. Plagiarist.
By Christopher Ketcham
The New Republic
In early 2010, the editors at Harper’s Magazine began reviewing a lengthy manuscript submitted by Chris Hedges, a former New York Times reporter. In the piece, Hedges had turned his eye to Camden, New Jersey, one of the most downtrodden cities in the nation. Hedges’s editor at Harper’s, Theodore Ross, who left the magazine in 2011 and is now a freelance writer, was excited when he saw the draft. “I thought it was a great story about a topic—poverty—that nobody covers enough,†Ross said.
The trouble began when Ross passed the piece along to the fact-checker assigned to the story. As Ross and the fact-checker began working through the material, they discovered that sections of Hedges’s draft appeared to have been lifted directly from the work of a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter named Matt Katz, who in 2009 had published a four-part series on social and political dysfunction in Camden.
Given Hedges’s institutional pedigree, this discovery shocked the editors at Harper’s. Hedges had been a star foreign correspondent at the Times, where he reported from war zones and was part of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for covering global terrorism. In 2002, he had received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. He is a fellow at the Nation Institute. He has taught at Princeton University and Columbia University. He writes a weekly column published in two widely read progressive websites, TruthOut and Truthdig. He is the author of twelve books, including the best-selling American Fascists. Since leaving the Times in 2005, he has evolved into a polemicist of the American left. For his fierce denunciations of the corporate state, his attacks on the political elite, and his enthusiasm for grassroots revolt, he has secured a place as a firebrand revered among progressive readers.
A leading moralist of the left, however, had now been caught plagiarizing at one of the oldest magazines of the left.
The rest: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118114/chris-hedges-pulitzer-winner-lefty-hero-plagiarist
I would rather jump into traffic than believe this is true...but the evidence appears to be pretty overwhelming.
As a writer, I consider plagiarism to be the one unforgiveable crime in the business. You just don't steal someone else's toil. If you can't write it yourself, find something else to do.
So this really, really, really sucks if it turns out to be true.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025086954Please, check out the drunken Pitt's real approach to plagiarism:
http://dummiefunnies.blogspot.com/2010/12/michael-moore-quotes-proud-plagiarist.htmlResponse to WilliamPitt (Original post)
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 12:40 PM
Star Member CaliforniaPeggy (109,158 posts)
3. I always wonder why people, esp. of his caliber, do stuff like this.
Don't they know they'll get caught?
Maybe the temptation is just too great.
Yeah, people like Pitt and Pam Dawson.
It's because they are "of his caliber".
A hero to poor addled grasswipe Judy Smith:
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 02:08 PM
grasswire (40,668 posts)
24. oh noooooo
How very sad. He's a hero to many. An oracle, I thought.
Too painful to finish:
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 02:12 PM
Star Member seaglass (5,746 posts)
25. This is extremely disappointing. I was hoping to discredit the author of the piece and he
certainly made clear that he started down this path because Hedges had plagiarized his wife's work...but on the surface it looks like the author has made a case. I stopped reading about 1/2 way through so hope there is something further that will legitimately refute these allegations but...I don't know.
