Spreadin’ Love

~ Laura

Brad deLong thinks Maureen Dowd plagiarized Josh Marshall. Check out the evidence. (UPDATE: Politico says that Dowd apologized, but said she didn't know that she had lifted it from Marshall. UPDATE2: Bloggasm asks TPM for a reaction and reports that "a lynch mob" for Dowd is calling for her head on Twitter.)

Do we need another women's magazine?

Megan responded to the fantastic article in the NYT magazine by Edward Andrews. Andrews documented how he, an economics reporter, went bankrupt. At least two readers e-mailed me about Megan's post.

And Will Farrell on SNL.

http://www.hulu.com/embed/2TFrahGtKZuLBol4gcWm7g

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7 thoughts on “Spreadin’ Love”

  2. Me, too! I’m so desperate that I’ve started reading Martha again.
    Friedman’s point is just that Double X’s articles are so good, why are they in the women’s ghetto? They should be on the front page of Slate. I’m going to link to a great parenting article in there later today.

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  4. The story in GQ about Rumsfeld is also good, if mostly for the nitty gritty and for folks who like to look at the sausage-making aspects of policy.

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  5. Doesn’t anyone else think that an apology is enough for this mistake? I can totally see it happening. We read so much stuff, and if I was actually writing, I could see accidentally copying a few lines from somewhere thinking I’d invented them. Or, is this something that doesn’t happen to writers?
    I’m always citing, here, saying “I read it somewhere, in the NY times, or the post, or the LA times, perhaps Dowd, or Brooks, or Collins, or Krugman, or someone said it.”

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  6. “Doesn’t anyone else think that an apology is enough for this mistake? I can totally see it happening.”
    I can kind of see that. Real plagiarists do it habitually and repeatedly, so I wouldn’t want to lynch Maureen Dowd unless it was clearly part her basic working method. I’d want to go after Dowd for her original stuff. Didn’t she used to be quite a decent reporter before she went into the opinion business? The NYT op/ed section is fatal to writers and I shudder to see young talents buried alive in its pages.

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  7. “I could see accidentally copying a few lines from somewhere thinking I’d invented them.”
    Me too. A paragraph, however? With one change of two words, which served really to clarify the paragraph’s intent?

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