Ex-New York Magazine Ross Barkan offered a puzzling mea culpa after getting canned for plagiarizing 67 times. NY Post Design See more of our coverage in your search results.
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We say: When it comes to technology there’s not a lot of alternatives to “people” as the inventors.
Carlson, who also says that demons torment him in his sleep, puts himself in the company of people who insisted that table forks, the printing press and trains were “devil’s work.”
“I did not use citations as aggressively as I should have and did not paraphrase well enough.” — former New York magazine writer Ross Barkan, Wednesday
We say: It’s odd to apologize for plagiarism — passing off other people’s words as your own — by saying you “didn’t paraphrase well enough.”
Writers are also supposed to come up with original ideas and observations, not just repackage other people’s.
“If you’re stealing things [like soap or toothpaste], you need them.” — New York state Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher, Aug. 13
We say: Drugstores are locking up shampoo and deodorant because of organized mass theft, not because a poor person took a bar of soap.
The left fights its war on common sense as vigorously as its assault on public order.
“I’m not that informed on national security.” — Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC), Tuesday
We say: Sigh. It’s true that her big brother left large shoes to fill on security policy, but couldn’t Sen. Graham prepare a better debate answer than, “I don’t know”?
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
