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Ever wonder why it’s always liberal writers that get caught plagiarizing? The reason is not what you might expect. It is because most information is written with a liberal bias, so liberal writers doing research are not forced to rewrite it. Conservatives surfing through news articles could not copy and paste parts of most articles they find into their writing without sounding ridiculous.
For example, I did a google news search on “abortion” and clicked only on the second article that appeared in the results, from Newsday. Here is a typical sentence from the article, “Even with Roe, the state legislatures, the courts and the Supreme Court itself have displayed a proclivity for upholding laws raising insurmountable barriers to pregnancy termination - barriers that particularly erode access to safe, legal abortion for the poor, the young and those living in rural areas.” That sentence is so charged with inflammatory words it could only have been written by partisans on the left.
If I was doing research and wanted to use that information, I would need to drastically rewrite that sentence as follows: “Although Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, it did not go so far as requiring government to pay for abortions, allowing teenage girls to obtain abortions without their parents’ permission, or providing government funding for abortion clinics in rural areas. Those areas are the only areas remotely related to abortion permitted to the individual states to regulate.”
Here is another example. I did a search on google news for “Bush,” and clicked only on the fourth article that appeared in the results, from CBS News. “Mr. Bush’s plan contained no new approaches and no start date for withdrawing U.S. troops.” Again, this sentence is so loaded with inflammatory rhetoric that it would have to be fully rewritten in order to attain some objectivity. Here is how I would rewrite it: “The President discussed the military engagement in Iraq and pledged to continue the course, obviously encouraged by the recent 403-3 vote in the House rejecting immediate withdrawal of the troops.”
Would you ever figure out that I had taken both of those sentences from other articles? Of course not. But when I do research on the web, I find that about 90 percent of the news articles I skim through are written with a leftwing slant. It is even more telling that the first articles I clicked on at the top of google news were both heavily biased.
Look at some typical examples of plagiarism in the past. An article from Slate magazine on student smokers. If I copied a Slate article I would be fired as a conservative columnist. A writer for the University of Manitoba’s newspaper was caught plagiarizing articles from The World Socialist Website and Green Left Weekly. No comment necessary. A leftwing columnist from the student newspaper I used to write for was let go when she plagiarized an article from Marie Claire. I wouldn’t be caught dead reading and getting material from a trendy feminist fashion-beauty magazine.
One of the few conservatives who was accused of plagiarizing was only briefly suspended from his job, because it wasn’t plagiarism, but simply writing about a specific topic that had been written about before – the fate of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. I guess in order to find any conservatives guilty of plagiarism, it’s necessary to pretend they plagiarized.
http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=158
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interesting..
