I am NOT defending this case, but - ALL Plagiarism is NOT BAD!!!!

Almost ALL writing is Plagiarism in some form.

“It was almost verbatim.”
is bad,
but
HOW does anyone take info from one place
and make it their own?
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 More Evidence that Plagiarism is Bad By Dr. Steven Taylor
(Not that I needed more evidence).Via the AP: CBS News fires producer for plagiarism

A CBS News producer was fired and the network apologized after a Katie Couric video essay on libraries was found to be plagiarized from The Wall Street Journal.
[…]
An editor for The Wall Street Journal called CBS News to point out the similarities of the April 4 notebook item to Zaslow’s article, headlined “Of the Places You’ll Go, Is the Library Still One of Them?” The pieces talk about how libraries are seen differently by children from their parents.
“We were horrified,” CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius said.

“It was almost verbatim.”

It is sufficiently shocking and stunning when lazy 19-year-olds do this kind of stuff to avoid doing real work. It is utterly incomprehensible that a professional adult would do this kind of thing, yet they do.

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