Tom Scocca*Author*: Can a Journalist as Important as Jill...

Tom Scocca*Author*: Can a Journalist as Important as Jill Abramson Be a Plagiarist?: "Here���s one part of one set of Moynihan���s examples: 'In December 2006, Mojica and two friends traveled to Chad with a camera to explore why Darfur couldn���t be saved. The result was the 2008 documentary Christmas in Darfur' . 'In December 2006 he and two friends traveled to Chad with a camera to explore why Darfur couldn���t be saved. The result was the 2008 documentary Christmas in Darfur'. That���s a string of 29 words... and a string identically presenting 28 of the same words, published in Abramson���s book as Abramson���s writing. The one-word difference is that Abramson swapped out the subject���s name for a pronoun. Abramson���s passage was plagiarized. Jill Abramson is a plagiarist...

...Like most plagiarists, she���s also arrogant and dishonest about it. ���I don���t think it���s an issue at all,��� she told a Fox News host last night.... [She] lashed out, Trump-wise, at the motives of the people who���d caught her doing wrong: "The attacks on my book from some @vicenews reflect their unhappiness with what I consider a balanced portrayal..."

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