http://alainamabaso.com/2012/08/24/workaday-journalist-goes-mccarthy-on-fareed-zakaria/ Fiction Need Not Apply. Wed, 22 May 2013 13:11:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://alainamabaso.com/2012/08/24/workaday-journalist-goes-mccarthy-on-fareed-zakaria/#comment-5403 Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:29:20 +0000 http://alainamabaso.wordpress.com/?p=1682#comment-5403 [...] Grumpy, Expounding On Literature. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own [...]

]]> http://alainamabaso.com/2012/08/24/workaday-journalist-goes-mccarthy-on-fareed-zakaria/#comment-5394 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:27:14 +0000 http://alainamabaso.wordpress.com/?p=1682#comment-5394 Nice take. I was ready to move on and be done with it, albeit surprised it had happened, until I noticed others wriggling to excuse him.

]]> http://alainamabaso.com/2012/08/24/workaday-journalist-goes-mccarthy-on-fareed-zakaria/#comment-5392 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:02:11 +0000 http://alainamabaso.wordpress.com/?p=1682#comment-5392 You nailed it. There is no rationalizing plagiarism, period. More so with a whole paragraph, like he did. It is difficult enough for writers these days attempting to protect their work against the boom and bane that is the Internet. In one sense, it widely disperses our work, in another, make our sweat equity too easy to copy and use without attributation. I accept his apology and his taking responsibility for his actions. I don’t accept the efforts by others to excuse his behavior.

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