http://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/05/02/nbc-news-new-note-to-our-readers-confesses-that-a-bunch-of-articles-were-plagiarized-but-wont-say-which-ones-or-who-wrote-them/
Maybe NBC was hoping to fly under the radar with this little “note to our readers,” but let’s just say it didn’t quite work out that way:
Erik Wasson (@elwasson) ~ Plagiarism unearthed at NBC
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/note-readers-rcna26934
Hmmm ... maybe Biden's "Ministry of Truth" should investigate, eh?
Plagiarism, you say? This seems like a pretty big deal. And NBC News readers and viewers alike deserve a comprehensive, thorough explanation.
Too bad this is all NBC News has decided to provide:
A review by NBC News has found 11 articles written by a reporter over the last year that did not meet our standards for original material. The articles contained passages from other news organizations that were used without attribution.
In all cases, the passages were not central to the stories, but instead contained supplemental or background material that did not represent original reporting.
An editor’s note has been placed on each of the articles, and the passages that were plagiarized have been removed.
Maintaining the trust of our readers and viewers is essential to NBC News, and our work must always meet the highest standards of our profession.
That’s all you’ve got to say, NBC News? Nothing more to add? You guys use words for a living, but the cat somehow got your tongue?
Josh Barro (@jbarro) ~ It is a little weird to announce this but not say which reporter or which stories it refers to?
Well, not when you consider the lil' tykes at NBC are trying to play a game of Hide-and-Seek.
No, it’s not a little weird. It’s a lot weird. It’s extremely weird.
It’s also extremely on-brand for NBC News.
Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) ~ Plagiarism scandal* at NBC News!
* = except we're not going to tell you who it was and what stories were plagiarized
So if you wanna know which stories were, um, adjusted in order to make them less plagiarism-y, it looks like you’ll have to just read every single NBC News article and look for the editor’s notes yourselves.
Siddhartha Mahanta (@sidhubaba) ~ Hey @NBCNews, feels like there's also an obligation to let readers know which stories didn't meet said standards?
But that takes all the fun and mystery out of it!
It also takes all the credibility out of NBC News (who knew they still had some to spare?).
David Wiebe (@dwiebe99) ~ "Maintaining the trust of our readers and viewer" by not identifying the reporter in question and thereby creating the optic that any NBC reporter might very well be a plagiarist.
Yeah ... pretty much.
Well, to be fair, given what we generally see from NBC News, it’s entirely possible that any and every NBC reporter could be a plagiarist.
Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) ~ NBC News finds multiple cases of plagiarism, doesn't name the reporter responsible nor does it look like the person was terminated.
Has anyone lost their job over this? Not just the Mystery Journalist, but every editor whose responsibility it was to make sure that this sort of thing didn’t happen. Eleven times.
It’s probably pretty safe to say that leaving out the name of the journalist and not mentioning which articles were written by said journalist were not accidental oversights on NBC News’ part. We’re not media types, but we feel comfortable saying that this is seriously effed up.
Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) ~ Perhaps Elon Musk is not the problem with media accountability.
The War on Journalism is coming from inside the house.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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