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By Alex Seitz-Wald
Mar 7, 2013
In a case of apparent plagiarism, Fox News pundit Juan Williams lifted sometimes word for word from a Center for American Progress report, without ever attributing the information, for a column he wrote last month for The Hill newspaper.
Almost two weeks after publication, the column was quietly revised online, with many of the sections rewritten or put in quotation marks, and this time citing the CAP report. It also included an editors note that read: This column was revised on March 2, 2013, to include previously-omitted attribution to the Center for American Progress.
But that editors note mentions only the attribution problem, and not the nearly identical wording that was also fixed.
In a phone interview Thursday evening, Williams pinned the blame on a researcher who he described as a young man.
(Excerpt)
Read more:
Juan Williams? plagiarism problem - Salon.com
Mar 7, 2013
In a case of apparent plagiarism, Fox News pundit Juan Williams lifted sometimes word for word from a Center for American Progress report, without ever attributing the information, for a column he wrote last month for The Hill newspaper.
Almost two weeks after publication, the column was quietly revised online, with many of the sections rewritten or put in quotation marks, and this time citing the CAP report. It also included an editors note that read: This column was revised on March 2, 2013, to include previously-omitted attribution to the Center for American Progress.
But that editors note mentions only the attribution problem, and not the nearly identical wording that was also fixed.
In a phone interview Thursday evening, Williams pinned the blame on a researcher who he described as a young man.
(Excerpt)
Read more:
Juan Williams? plagiarism problem - Salon.com
