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Submitted by 818chris, Apr 12, 2007 18:47

Good piece. Media plagiarists should always be named, because we need to know whose work to question. How do we know if this is her first bit of plagiarism? Were other stories or pieces falsified or stolen.

Also ... I think it's unethical for journos to put their names on pieces they didn't write. I think the average person knows that anchors read stuff on TV that other people write -- and it's not as if the anchor is publicly taking credit for writing those words -- but when you're talking about things in print, it's shady to take credit for something that someone else has written, if you're a journalist.

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