Plagiarism

In my opinion, I think the worst case of authorial misconduct has to be Fareed Zakaria. He has this, sort of, reputation to repeat things that he has already has said in the past. Such as saying similar things at a graduation commencement at Harvard and Duke. He said very, very similar things compared to Jill Lepore’s article on guns. The least objectionable, in my opinion, would have to be Jonah Lehrer. I mean sure its plagiarism and very looked down upon in the journalism world but, is it really the worst thing that could’ve happened? It’s all technically original but, also not at the same time, since he’s working for multiple different news sources and such. I think all three aren’t really that similar, I mean sure, it’s all connected through plagiarism but, they’re all different cases in different situations. Fareed Zakaria is him basically stealing from another article, Lehrer is him plagiarizing himself but, from different sources, and Chris Anderson is stealing from Wikipedia so in all just different.