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His first instance of plagiarism was an unattributed quote taken from the Associated Press in an interview – one he was sure his editors would catch. But no one did. “Once you do something that crosses any ethical line… it is easy to go back and do it over and over,” he said. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Isabella Kwai, Duke Reporters Lab</span><i style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US">While not comparing Margaret Wente to Jayson Blair, his reflections are still instructive. Following the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="http://mediaculpapost.blogspot.ca/2012/09/margaret-wente-zero-for-plagiarism.html">2012</a></span><span lang="EN-US"> Wente <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/chris-selley-on-margaret-wente-plagiarism-and-the-globes-public-editor-cum-union-rep">plagiarism saga</a> and the latest <a href="http://mediaculpapost.blogspot.ca/2016/04/margaret-wente-plagiarism-then-and-now.html">dust up</a>, <a href="http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2016/04/26/Big-Loser-in-Wente-Plagiarism/">The Globe and Mail</a> <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/seancraig/the-globe-is-looking-into-new-allegations-of-plagiarism-agai?utm_term=.xcRgvMB7X#.heOK5El0g">addressed</a> a few<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.metronews.ca/views/metro-views/2016/04/27/allegations-against-wente-are-serious-so-why-the-kid-gloves.html">recent</a> lapses. Given the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/apr/27/canadian-newspaper-columnist-accused-of-plagiarism-again">history</a> and persistence, experts like </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">NYU Prof. Charles Seife</span><span lang="EN-US"> suggested a review.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>If instances like the phrase he identified are now acknowledged to have lacked proper attribution, what about significant issues identified earlier? A second look at just a few of these columns shows additional questionable prose and quotes, often from unacknowledged bloggers.  The articles suggest multiple attribution questions a review might consider (emphasis is added throughout).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span lang="EN-US">For example, The Globe and Mail consistently refused to address what was described by Chris Selley as “flagrant, unambiguous plagiarism”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> in a column where Ms. Wente <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ego-tweeto-ergo-sum/article24976117/">wrote</a> this: <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-fareast-language: JA;">A lot of celebrities </span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-fareast-language: JA;">are now using Twitter as a marketing tool to create an air of<b> faux authenticity…</b> They <b>hire flacks to feed content into their Twitter streams and blogs. </b>The New York Times reports<b> </b>that<b> a gentleman named Broadway (not his real name) thumbs tweets for rapper 50 Cent (not his real name), who has nearly a quarter of a million followers. “He doesn't actually use Twitter,” Broadway says. “But the energy of it is all him.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US">the day after N</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">icholas Carr <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130426205725/http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/03/the_energy.php">wrote</a> this </span><span lang="EN-US">on his blog ‘Rough Type’:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">…a lot of celebrities have hired flacks to feed content into their Twitter streams,</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> their blogs, and the various other online channels<b> of faux authenticity. A gentleman named Broadway (not his real name) thumbs tweets for rapper 50 Cent (not his real name), who has nearly a quarter million </b>pseudonymous<b> followers... "He doesn't actually use Twitter," Broadway says ... "but the energy of it is all him."</b></span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Ms. Wente’s column had noted</span><span lang="EN-US"> a NYT </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/technology/internet/27twitter.html">article</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> about celebrity tweets, but not the</span><span lang="EN-US"> prose on Carr’s blog.  Wente's article also contains material from this earlier<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html?_r=0">NYT article</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US">. </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wente: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">"Each little update - each individual bit of social information - is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane," says new-media expert Clive Thompson. "But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends' and family members' lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting." <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He calls this experience "ambient awareness" - an invisible dimension floating over everyday life, like a type of ESP.</b></span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Clive Thompson, New York Times</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">: [Social scientists call it] </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">...</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"> “ambient awareness”.... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #262626;">Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The ambient information becomes like “a type of E.S.P.,” as Haley described it to me, an invisible dimension floating over everyday life.</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></i></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US">Readers would be forgiven for thinking Wente interviewed Thompson.  It's not clear why she would not simply say 'as Clive Thompson wrote in the New York Times'.   Thompson's own last sentence in the paragraph shows him interviewing Ben Haley, though Ms. Wente's version removes any reference to the media expert along with the quotation marks around a portion of the prose. Thompson’s NYT piece is called “The brave new world of digital intimacy”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Wente refers to “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">a new world of digital intimacy” without citing the article.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/emmaloop/did-margaret-wente-plagiarize-this-column-too?utm_term=.bldVEaZK4#.qcdVQ5vb0">Similarities</a></span><span lang="EN-US"> between her columns and those in the NYT have been remarked for <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.j-source.ca/article/wente-and-dowd-cell-phone-columns-too-close-call">years</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">. <span style="color: #1d1d1d; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A correction obtained June 3, 2011(print edition), noted material that should have been attributed to Dexter Filkins.</span></span><span lang="EN-US"> Like the Nicholas Carr piece, other columns contain material found on blogs. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://mediaculpapost.blogspot.ca/2012/07/margaret-wente-credit-where-credit-is.html">This example</a></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> had originally flagged quotes identical to David Weinberger’s live blogging of Robert Putnam’s Aspen Ideas talk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">A quick second look reveals</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> additional bits similar and/or identical to NYT and Atlantic articles. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/arthur-brooks-robert-putnam-and-the-opportunity-society/259283/">Clive Crook</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US">, The Atlantic, July 1, 2012:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">racial disparities… are narrowing… class disparities…. are widening dramatically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The prosperous and the poor, regardless of race, are living in increasingly separate worlds.</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-long-climb-from-inequality/article4415776/">Wente</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">: July 14, 2012: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Racial disparities are narrowing, </i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">but<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> class disparities are widening dramatically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The prosperous and the poor, regardless of race, are increasingly segregated from each other.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/opinion/sunday/social-inequality-and-the-new-elite.html">Alexander Stille</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Oct. 22, 2011,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>NYT:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #262626;">Thus we have become both more inclusive and more elitist</span></i><span style="color: #262626;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-long-climb-from-inequality/article4415776/">Wente</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As society has become more open, inclusive and meritocratic, it has also become more elitist.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wente writes,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> “The<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> paradox</b> of modern life (one that Mr. Putnam doesn’t deal with) is that meritocracy and equality are increasingly at odds. </i><span style="color: #262626;">Referencing ‘paradox’ from Stille’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“The Paradox of the New Elite</b>”, she appears to </span>paraphrase his paragraphs 11 and 12 without mentioning him.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>In contrast, it’s interesting to see how Crook and Stille, like other good writers<span style="color: #262626;">, easily acknowledge other authors and tell readers how they came by their information, quotes, or ideas. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">The quotes in the same column appear identical to those of David </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/06/29/aspen-robert-putnam-on-the-growing-class-gap/">Weinberger</a></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">who live blogged Robert Putnam’s presentation at Aspen Ideas for his blog. <span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wente<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">:  “We’re about to go over a cliff when it comes to social mobility,” he says. “Social mobility and opportunity… are going to plummet.”</span></i></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/06/29/aspen-robert-putnam-on-the-growing-class-gap/">Weinberger</a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> <b><i>“… we’re about to go over a cliff when it comes to social mobility…Social mobility and opportunity are going to plummet.”</i></b></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wente: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> <b><i>“Over the last two decades or so, white kids coming from less educated, less well-off backgrounds are more and more going through life with only one parent at home,” he says... “There’s a growing class gap among American youth among all the predictors of success in life.”</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Weinberger: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> <b><i>“Over the last two decades or so, white kids coming from less educated, less well-off backgrounds are more and more going through life with only one parent at home.”</i></b>…<b><i>“There’s a growing class gap among American youth among all the predictors of success in life.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wente:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">This gap shows up in test scores</span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Weinberger:<i> </i></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">All this shows up in reading and math test scores<b><span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></i></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wente<i>: </i></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">This gap is way worse than it was in the 1960s</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Weinberger:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #522601;">it’s way worse than in the ’60s</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wente:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As Mr. Putnam said at Aspen,<b> “I happen to think that hugs and time are more important than money.” (He added that money is important too.)</b></span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Weinberger</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">: <b><i>“I happen to think that hugs and time are more important than money, but money is important too”.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">A </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="http://www.aspenideas.org/session/requiem-american-dream-unequal-opportunity-america">recording</a><span style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> reveals Putnam’s actual words differ slightly – as expected with live blogging. Only a few remarks appear in quotes, most in prose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>That Wente reproduces the same quotes verbatim makes it unlikely they came from another source, as his selection and wording are unique. While an excellent summary, he warns it is inexact, advising </span></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">“</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">attribute it to me, and don't use it commercially without my permission”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">.</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #522601; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Does Wente have a responsibility to tell readers where she obtained these quotes and credit the blog on which they appeared? <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Because while Weinberger’s blog was reliable, this was not the case with the</span><span lang="EN-US"> fake protester, <a href="http://mediaculpapost.blogspot.ca/2011/11/wente-occupy-protests-and-john.html">"John"</a>,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"> apparently picked up two links back from a blog post by Kenneth Anderson that had provided the meat between thick slices of borrowed quotes in an article on the Occupy protests. </span><span lang="EN-US">It was obvious that <a href="https://www.barackobama.com/news/helping-to-pay-for-school-one-student-at-a-time/">"John"</a> was not a protester on the sites where his quotes and prose appeared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>If plagiarism is a<span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/john-miller/2016/04/globe-and-mails-problem-goes-much-deeper-margaret-wente">capital sin</a>, fabulism, even if the result of “sloppiness”, is also deadly. A review might reveal if there are similar characters in Ms. Wente's previous articles, or if further bits of prose and quotes in the same column warrant address.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/occupy-boston-students-protest-education-debt-145254120.html">Jay Lindsay, AP</a>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1e1f;">Boston resident Sarvenaz Asasy, 33… with a master's degree in international human rights — and about $60,000 in student loans</span></i></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1e1f; mso-fareast-language: JA;">…Asasy said the reason there are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">few jobs in her field</b>, which aims <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to help the poor get food and education</b>, is the government focuses on helping corporations<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">..."They're cutting all the grants, and they're bailing out the banks,"…"I don't get it."</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/occupiers-are-blaming-the-wrong-people/article4182999/">Wente</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Boston resident Sarvenaz Asasy, 33, who has a master’s degree in international human rights, along with $60,000 in student loans.</b> She dreamed of doing work <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to help the poor get food and education</b>. But now she can’t <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">find a job in her field</b>. She blames the government. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“They’re cutting all the grants, and they’re bailing out the banks. I don’t get it.”<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">While using facts like these may be less troubling…<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Derek Thompson, </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/48-of-americans-live-in-homes-receiving-government-benefits/246268/">The Atlantic</a></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>(hed) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">48% of Americans Live in Homes Receiving Government Benefits</span>…half of all income sent to Washington is sent to the elderly, sick and disabled, or to their service providers.</i></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wente:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">half all income sent to Washington is redistributed to the elderly, sick and disabled, or to those who serve them…nearly half the country lives in a household that’s getting some sort of government benefit…<o:p></o:p></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">…other material from Kenneth Anderson (who Wente in this case names without mentioning the site where the work appeared) includes additional ideas and specific language:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://volokh.com/2011/10/31/the-fragmenting-of-the-new-class-elites-or-downward-mobility/">Kenneth Anderson</a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that model no longer works</i><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wente:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this social model no longer works<o:p></o:p></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://volokh.com/2011/10/31/the-fragmenting-of-the-new-class-elites-or-downward-mobility/">Kenneth Anderson</a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">… those who saw themselves entitled to a white collar job in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Virtue Industries of government and non-profits</b> – the helping professions, the culture industry, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the virtueocracies, the industries of therapeutic social control, as </b></i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=901085"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-language: JA; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Christopher Lasch pointed out in his final book, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Revolt of the Elites</span></span></a></span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/occupiers-are-blaming-the-wrong-people/article4182999/">Wente</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the virtueocracy</b> – the class of people who expect to find self-fulfillment… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">in non-profit or government work</b>, by saving the planet, rescuing the poor and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">regulating the rest of us</b>. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">They are what the social critic Christopher Lasch called the “new class” of "therapeutic cops in the new bureaucracy."<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.academia.edu/2836628/Heartless_world_revisited_Christopher_Laschs_Parting_Polemic_Against_the_New_Class">Anderson</a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"> (</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Times Literary Supplement, 1995, linked on the first blog):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #262626;">They… sought jobs </span>as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">therapeutic cops in the new bureaucracies.</b></i></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US">Anderson is the exception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Other bloggers whose work turns up in Wente’s columns are not identified (even if they’re Nicholas Carr).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Here’s a lesser known one:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://collegeaffordability.blogspot.ca/2009/09/keeping-costs-low-by-focusing-on.html">Daniel Bennett</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US">, Sept. 4, 2009: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">While I believe that some research contributes to the advancement of society (e.g. engineering, sciences, medical, etc), I suspect that much of what is being published in obscure academic journals contributes little… a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> higher education system that pawned off the responsibility of educating them in favor of pursuing a whole lot of self-interested research (which the majority of undergraduates are not involved in) that for the most part, doesn't matter</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/want-to-know-why-professors-dont-teach/article1202892/">Wente</a>, </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Sept. 18, 2009:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Of course some research, especially in the sciences and medicine, matters a great deal to the advancement of society. But a vast amount of it - especially in the humanities and social sciences - does not. Richard Vedder, a leading U.S. critic, has argued that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the higher education system has pawned off the responsibility of educating students "in favour of pursuing a whole lot of self-interested research (which the majority of undergraduates are not involved in) that for the most part, doesn't matter</b>."</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US">Again, similar and identical prose, and confusion where Ms. Wente attributes to Vedder what appears to be Bennett’s prose (unless Bennett failed to quote Vedder). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US">As noted before, Wente often begins with anecdotes suggesting what follows are her own thoughts, and often reproduces significant portions of what an expert says without quotes before providing the required punctuation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wente:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Take my old stomping ground, English Lit. When last I looked, nobody was clamouring for another book on <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Moby-Dick</span> . Yet <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">as demand goes down, supply goes up. Over the past five decades, the "productivity" of scholars in the fields of languages and literature has increased from approximately 13,000 publications to 72,000 a year. Who reads them? For the most part, hardly anyone.</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">In </span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="http://www.aei.org/docLib/Bauerlein.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">"Professors on the Production Line, Students on Their Own"</span></a>,</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Mark Bauerlein</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">also mention</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">s Moby Dick, adding, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">“Nobody off-campus declared, “We don’t have enough books on Walt Whitman…”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>He observes: “</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Demand goes down and supply goes up”</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">And in The Chronicle of Higher Education (July 20, 2009), he </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Diminishing-Returns-in/47107/">wrote</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…over the past five decades, the "productivity" of scholars in the fields of languages and literature had increased hugely: from approximately 13,000 publications to 72,000 a year… who reads those books… fewer people than ever before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></i></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #161616; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Later, Wente concludes: <b><i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>students count for more than articles in unread quarterlies.  </i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.aei.org/files/1969/12/31/Bauerlein.pdf"><b><span style="color: #878787; text-decoration: none;">Mark Bauerlein</span></b></a>:  <b><i>Students count more than articles in quarterlies.</i></b> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">And in another column, Wente had reproduced material found on the website of writer Suzanne Barston, who had snagged an interview with Joan Wolf (something one imagines Wente could have done).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Wente refers to </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Barston’s interview </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">as something </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wolf <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“told one group of moms”, </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a curious description.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Barston is a writer who, according to her website, is</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "helvetica neue light"; font-size: 15.0pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">“former Editor-in-Chief of <i>Los Angeles Family Magazine</i>, and a freelance writer specializing in parenting, women’s interest, and science/health topics and author of <a href="http://www.fearlessformulafeeder.com/bottled-up/"><i><span style="color: #1d8bb5; text-decoration: none;">Bottled Up</span></i></a><i>”.</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Joan Wolf as interviewed by</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> <a href="http://www.fearlessformulafeeder.com/about/about-the-fff/"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">Suzanne Barston</span></b></a>:</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">…breastfeeding is part of what I call total motherhood, the belief that mothers are both capable of and responsible for preventing any imaginable risk to their babies and children… we are making mothers crazy today by telling them that they have the power, if they are willing to put forth the effort and make sacrifices, to prevent all sorts of bad things from happening to their kids. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-tyranny-of-mothers-milk/article624812/">Wente</a>:</span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">"Breastfeeding is part of what I call total motherhood, the belief that mothers are both capable of and responsible for preventing any imaginable risk to their babies and children," </span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">she told one group of moms.<b> "We are making mothers crazy by telling them that they have the power, if they are willing to put forth the effort and make sacrifices, to prevent all sorts of bad things from happening to their kids."</b></span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">In the same column, material that had appeared in a Sunday Times feature by Helen Rumbelow is not cited, and again Ms. Wente’s quotation marks are partial. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-tyranny-of-mothers-milk/article624812/">Wente</a>:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">One of the world’s most authoritative sources of breastfeeding research is Michael Kramer, professor of pediatrics at McGill University. “The public health breastfeeding promotion information is way out of date,” he says. The trouble is that the breastfeeding lobby is at war with the formula milk industry, and neither side is being very scientific. “When it becomes a crusade, people are not very rational.”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><a href="http://lactivist.net/exposing-the-myths-of-breastfeeding-june-2009/">Rumbelow:</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"> <b><i>…one of the world’s most authoritative sources of breastfeeding research… Michael Kramer, professor of paediatrics at McGill University, Montreal.…“The public health breastfeeding promotion information is way out of date,” Kramer says. The trouble is, he said, that the breastfeeding lobby is at war with the formula milk industry, and “neither side is being very scientific ... when it becomes a crusade, people are not very rational”.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">While there are other examples,<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the five articles reprised above all contain multiple issues and involve blogs from which material appears to be reproduced often verbatim, and where in most cases the blogs are not cited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>In other instances, quotes appear around only a portion of the text.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The plagiarism incident in <a href="http://mediaculpapost.blogspot.ca/2012/09/margaret-wente-zero-for-plagiarism.html">2012</a> also involved multiple sources in one column.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US">The Globe agreed an eight word phrase </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">from Daniel Engber’s Slate article</span><span lang="EN-US"> about the research of Roy Baumeister</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> should have been attributed</span><span lang="EN-US">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Here’s an</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> earlier Wente </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/debt-key-lime-pie-and-willpower/article2194781/"><b><span style="color: #45749a; text-decoration: none;">column</span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> on the same topic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  While they are cited, </span></span><span style="color: #262626;">parts of Baumeister/Tierney's writings appear outside of quotation marks.  </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/debt-key-lime-pie-and-willpower/article4350898/">Wente:</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Most social scientists look for the causes of social failure outside the individual: deprivation, oppression, discrimination and so on.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> “Searching for external factors is often more comfortable for everyone,” the authors write, “particularly for the many academics who worry that they risk the politically incorrect sin of ‘blaming the victim’ by suggesting that people’s problems might arise from causes inside themselves.” <b>Social problems can also seem easier to fix than character defects...</b></span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Baumeister/Tierney</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://blog.800ceoread.com/2011/09/06/an-introduction-to-willpower/"><b><span style="color: #45749a; text-decoration: none;">here</span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">: <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Most social scientists look for causes of misbehavior outside the individual: poverty, relative deprivation, oppression..</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. Searching for external factors is often more comfortable for everyone, particularly for the many academics who worry that they risk the politically incorrect sin of “blaming the victim” by suggesting that people’s problems might arise from causes inside themselves. <b>Social problems can also seem easier than character defects to fix...<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wente:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Self-regulation failure is the major social pathology of our time,” concluded a team of researchers quoted in the book. <b>This failure contributes not only to obesity, but to high divorce rates, domestic violence, crime, addiction and a host of other social problems.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Baumeister/Tierney</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Self-regulation failure is the major social pathology of our time,” they concluded, <b>pointing to the accumulating evidence of its contribution to high divorce rates, domestic violence, crime, and a host of other problems</b>.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US">So while a correction was offered for the phrase </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #191919; mso-fareast-language: JA;">"a muscle that can be exercised to exhaustion",</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #191919; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US">both Mr. Engber and Globe readers may be left puzzled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Unaware of past plagiarism, Engber may wonder what gives? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those aware of significant past plagiarism may wonder why similar corrections were not offered in regard to articles like those above. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Is using material from bloggers versus Slate or the New York Times more acceptable? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are standards consistent?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Are past incidents ignored?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Is there need for investigation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>If so, what kind? <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/sorry-globe-and-mail-apology-not-accepted">Vice</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"> reported in 2012 on the review carried out in regard to Jonah Lehrer:<span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">"I did not speak to any of [the writers whose work was suspected of being copied]," said Seife, on the phone from his office in New York. "It seemed to me like a red herring. What if the writer you're contacting is a friend of the plagiarist? I think you should be able to judge whether something is plagiarism on its merits..."<span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div>     <br /> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US">I tend to agree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Quite apart from individual authors, there’s a responsibility to readers and to the public trust. <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.j-source.ca/article/globe-and-mail-editor-chief-%E2%80%9Csloppy-standards%E2%80%9D-where-they-found-issues-wente">Sloppy standards</a> </span>or plagiarism? </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">The questions remain.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' 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class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='7959604697711704200' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='2731701573771060883' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='2731701573771060883'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://mediaculpapost.blogspot.com/2016/04/margaret-wente-plagiarism-then-and-now.html'>Margaret Wente: Plagiarism then – and now?</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-2731701573771060883' itemprop='description articleBody'> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Margaret Wente begins her article <span style="color: #262626;"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/great-global-greening-is-happening-now/article29717540/">"The great global greening is happening now"</a></span> with an anecdote about bears encroaching on her romantic country retreat north of Toronto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Her fourth paragraph begins,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>“Agriculture has always been the greatest destroyer of nature”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Jesse Ausubel begins his article, <span style="color: #262626;"><a href="http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/journal/issue-5/the-return-of-nature">"The return of nature"</a> </span>with an anecdote about the return of bears to the <span style="color: #262626;">Apshawa Preserve in New Jersey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>His fourth paragraph begins, </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Agriculture has always been the greatest destroyer of nature”</b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Ms. Wente does not put Ausubel’s sentence in quotes. Four paragraphs later, she mentions him, and remarkably, links to his article.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>One wonders if her editors checked the link.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  A</span>part from the identical sentence, further similar material not enclosed in quotes, and some wording identical to a different author at the end of her column, the opening seems, to a non-expert at least, embarrassingly similar to Ausubel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">But this is classic Wente;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>start with a few paragraphs of </span>folksy anecdote which make it seem that what follows arises from some personal insight.  Add some easy swipes at “elites”, academics and environmentalists, and some filler from the New York Times or <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/chris-selley-margaret-wente-is-back-in-the-good-books">any number</a> of sources. </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Again before mentioning Mr. Ausubel, Wente observes: <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">“One recent study found that high-yield farmers in the European Union increased their yields by 22 per cent while also reducing their chemical pesticide use by 37 per cent.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Ausubel writes that this study:<o:p></o:p></span><br /> <div style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 5.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">funded by the German government and the European Union, found a 37 percent decline in chemical pesticide use while crop yields rose 22 percent”. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Had she</span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"> </i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">included in quotation marks his material, she would have avoided the error she makes in suggesting the global meta data analysis to which he refers was a study of only European Union farmers.  Further on, more paraphrase </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">without</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> direct attribution.</span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></i><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span lang="EN-US">Wente: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If we can get a grip on food waste, stop producing corn to feed cars, boost yields to the level of the most productive farmers and eat more food that is efficient to produce… we could liberate an area the size of India from agricultural production.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Ausubel: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If we keep lifting average yields…stop feeding corn to cars, restrain our diets lightly, and reduce waste, then an area the size of India or of the United States east of the Mississippi could be released globally from agriculture over the next 50 years or so.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Towards the end of her column, Wente also appears to borrow from an earlier article by <a href="http://www.resilience.org/stories/2016-02-17/crispr-is-coming-to-agriculture-with-big-implications-for-food-farmers-consumers-and-nature">Maywa Montenegro</a>, a <a href="http://ensia.com/voices/crispr-is-coming-to-agriculture-with-big-implications-for-food-farmers-consumers-and-nature/">researcher</a> at Berkley (emphasis added):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">“Very few technologies truly merit the epithet <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“game changer”</b> — but a new genetic engineering tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is one of them...With CRISPR (the technology’s shorthand name), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">precision and speed</b> have soared…CRISPR <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">opens the door to all kinds of potential food production improvements</b>”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wente:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">“And now we have a new <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">game-changer</b>, in the form of a revolutionary gene-editing tool called CRISPR. This tool (whose name is short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) offers a new level of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">speed, precision </b>and versatility, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">opens the door to vast new food production improvements</b>”. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Ms. Wente doesn’t cite or link to Montenegro’s article – which is informative, nuanced and less celebratory, but instead ‘leaps’ to a surprising conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">There are certainly very legitimate criticisms to be made of the Leap Manifesto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It should be noted though, that the document does not appear to mention GMO or food production, so it’s difficult to find anything substantive in Ms. Wente’s borrowings to convince readers that its authors “would rather have the world’s billions eating mouldy, stunted potatoes that exhaust the soil and suck up all the water”, though no doubt certain readers enjoyed her image of forcing Naomi Klein and other ‘elites’ to “try it for themselves”.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div>     <br /> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">While not as <a href="http://mediaculpapost.blogspot.ca/2012/09/margaret-wente-zero-for-plagiarism.html">extensive</a> as previous instances of plagiarism, it’s reasonable to ask to what extent The Globe <a href="http://www.j-source.ca/article/willfully-blind-closer-look-margaret-wente-plagiarism-scandal-and-what-it-says-about-globe-0">condones</a> certain practices on the part of certain writers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last night, I observed to a friend who mentioned Ms. Wente that I’d stopped reading her quite a while ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Today I clicked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Certainly the adolescent quality of her swipes at environmentalists remains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Despite these, she herself seems to remain dedicated to recycling. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/00984043529982056425' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/00984043529982056425' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Just the facts, please</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta 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