Universal Says It Doesn't Think Coulter Plagiarized

[sabra]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002802609

Universal Says It Doesn't Think Coulter Plagiarized

NEW YORK Universal Press Syndicate said today that it doesn't think controversial columnist Ann Coulter is guilty of plagiarism.

In a statement sent to E&P, Universal President and Editor Lee Salem said: "Last week a software program company official ran Ann Coulter's columns through a 'match-text' program, frequently used by teachers to detect original work. The New York Post cited two columns in which some text matched other published materials and also mentioned three snippets in her book, 'Godless, The Church of Liberalism.'

"In addition to looking at the columns mentioned in the New York Post story, we also reviewed a sampling of other columns that have been mentioned in the media. Like her book publisher, Crown, Universal Press Syndicate finds no merits to the allegations of plagiarism brought by the software company executive. There are only so many ways you can rewrite a fact and minimal matching text is not plagiarism.

"Universal Press Syndicate is confident in the ability of Ms. Coulter, an attorney and frequent media target, to know when to make attribution and when not to. We also have confidence in our 35-year history of detecting fraudulent and unethical work, having represented conservatives and liberal commentators alike."

[Joanne98]

1. editorandpublisher is owned by Carlyle Group......

Did they buy Universal too?

[MADem]

4. Well E and P isn't taking a stand, just reporting the stance of the

publishers in this instance.

[thereismore]

2. ... because they don't think. nt

[MADem]

3. There are only so many ways you can rewrite a fact

and minimal matching text is not plagiarism!!!!

Oh PLEASE....when it takes twenty four WORDS or more to write that fact, surely a quick perusal through the thesaurus might give one ANOTHER way of saying the same thing!!!!!

But, hey, what they are really saying is, ignore the pesky facts, they don't BELIEVE she plagiarized...

Faith based publishing, brought to you by the RNC, I guess!!!!

[Fridays Child]

8. Exactly. Anyone who ever wrote a college paper knows that...

...any passage of five or more consecutive words of another writer requires attribution. Otherwise, the inclusion of the passage constitutes plagiarism.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

14. Absolutely. She does not attribute, and that is *theft*

When the owner of the software firm appeared on Countdown last week, he noted that the attributions were either absent or appeared in odd places that made it unclear what info she was attributing to what source.

For instance, one passage was lifted from a source and then five paragraphs down she attributed another passage from that source, but there was no way to tell that the two passages came from the same source.

Sleazy publisher matches sleazy "writer."

[shain from kane]

5. It's sad to rely on the one monkey with one typewriter defense. n/t

[onehandle]

6. Their opinions don't count. They make money off of her. nt

[screenplaya]

12. Bingo! n/t

[Lefty48197]

7. They stole that response from Bill O'Reilly

I'm pretty sure he said the same damn thing.

[samsingh]

9. it looks like they've lowered the standard for plagerism

[chelsea0011]

10. I'm stunned. The company that gets $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ off her hate

speech can't find fault?

[daleo]

11. Coulter gets a pass

O'Reilly gets a pass.
Limbaugh gets two passes.

It goes on and on. Has there ever been a time so corrupt?

[denverbill]

13. They all plagiarize from one set of right-wing talking points anyway.

If the talking points say 'cut and run' she says 'cut and run'. If the talking points say 'waffle' she says 'waffle'.

It's one giant echo chamber over there. I'm surprised they don't lift entire articles from each other by accident every day.

[ShockediSay]

15. Give it to the NY State Bar Assoc on an unethical conduct complaint

I'll accept the NYSBA's determination.

[truthisfreedom]

16. why hasn't the guy who wrote the book she ripped off come forward and

shown us the passages she stole?

i want to see facts. i want to see her fugly face rubbed in the facts.

[HuffleClaw]

17. "Ms. Coulter, an attorney and frequent media target..."

hehehehehe

'frequent media target' ??!! what a crock. i expect their legal department is behind this denial.

[DesertRat]

18. Unfortunately this just brings her more media attention

And more book sales. :eyes:

[underpants]

19. Typical

[yellowcanine]

20. Who gives a shit? I don't. If people want to buy his crappy book , let

them. Whether or not it is plagiarized is immaterial to me. I am not going to read it anyway, much less buy it or believe what it says. People like Coulter are best ignored. Any publicity is good publicity to him.

[RCinBrooklyn]

21. "It doesn't think she did"? What the f**k.. Either she did or did not.