The progressives are eating themselves - the schadenfreude is epic in this story from Vox:
“I made mistakes”: Jill Abramson responds to plagiarism charges around her new book
Jill Abramson’s new book, Merchants of Truth, is a lot of things — a paean to print journalism, a commentary on the digital revolution in news, and a lamentation for what she considers declining journalistic standards.
There are, no doubt, some interesting arguments in the book. But Abramson, who became the first female executive editor of the New York Times in 2011 and remained in that position until she was fired in 2014, has been engulfed in controversy over a series of factual errors and, this week, charges of plagiarism.
On Wednesday, Vice’s Michael Moynihan highlighted a series of passages in Abramson’s book that he says range from ethically questionable to clearly plagiarized. Freelance journalist Ian Frisch also identified seven passages in Abramson’s book that he claims were lifted from a 2014 profile he wrote in a now-defunct magazine, Relapse.
Abramson’s book was already under attack for a host of factual errors, notably about journalist Arielle Duhaime-Ross, who was interviewed by Abramson and appears in the book. In January, Duhaime-Ross highlighted a single paragraph in Abramson’s book that contained at least six errors, including about her professional background and her gender identity.
The irony here is impossible to miss: a book that talks at length about journalistic ethics and praises legacy media titans like the New York Times and the Washington Post while lambasting new media companies like Vice and BuzzFeed for sloppy reporting that is, well, filled with errors and what appears to be very sloppy reporting.
The final paragraph is wonderful. There is a lot more at the site including an interview with Ms. Abramson.
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