Wednesday, July 12, 2006
College Newspaper Reporter Plagiarizes...a Downie News Release!
The MSM continues to make up the news, either altering the facts to fit its liberal agenda or throwing the entire story out and making stuff up so that it can hurt conservatives.
A "reporter" for the Daily Iowan, a college newspaper, was caught plagiarizing an entire story on his support for a minimum wage increase from - of all places - a Downtrodden Party news release.
The newspaper caught the story, fired the creepo, and apologized.
Plagiarism statement
There is an easy way to avoid having this problem happen in the future. In fact, the way is only 3 words long:
Don't Hire Liberals!
That works every time.
The MSM continues to make up the news, either altering the facts to fit its liberal agenda or throwing the entire story out and making stuff up so that it can hurt conservatives.
A "reporter" for the Daily Iowan, a college newspaper, was caught plagiarizing an entire story on his support for a minimum wage increase from - of all places - a Downtrodden Party news release.
The newspaper caught the story, fired the creepo, and apologized.
Plagiarism statement
We here at The Daily Iowan recently learned that the July 6 column "Minimum wage no-brainer" was largely plagiarized from a report released June 29 by the Democratic Policy Committee. On behalf of The Daily Iowan staff, I sincerely apologize and deeply regret that such a piece appeared in our newspaper.
Per staff policy, the harshest possible action has been taken against this employee, and John Heineman will no longer work for this publication. We performed an investigation of all his previous work since joining the paper in the fall of 2005. This search revealed no prior cases of plagiarism.
We have treated this situation with the utmost caution and deliberation in hopes that never again will a member of our staff perpetrate this breach of professional ethics.
In light of this episode, the DI has begun discussing ways to prevent the recurrence of plagiarism in our pages. Already, Opinions staff writers are now required to submit a file to their editor detailing through what research and from whom they gathered their story's information. We are pursuing ways to prevent plagiarism in our other departments.
There is an easy way to avoid having this problem happen in the future. In fact, the way is only 3 words long:
Don't Hire Liberals!
That works every time.
