Actually, the problem is not as much plagiarism as unoriginality, Kelly McBride writes at Poynter. A reporter can't be blamed for starting with a Google search, but that creates risks: "These days, we must see always what others have written before we begin – and there’s so much that’s been written about any given topic because writing now is mostly the continuation of a conversation already in play." Also, Mathew Ingram on the Wente case.
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