The Denver Post ran this article Sunday, excerpted:
Denver Post popular-music writer G. Brown resigned Friday after editors determined he had used language from other media reports under his byline without attribution to those publications.
Post editors learned of the matter last week when a reader contacted the newspaper and pointed out similarities between language in Brown's Oct. 26 preview of a Simon and Garfunkel concert and phrases in an article that had appeared earlier on a website. The reader provided The Post with a copy of the online article for comparison with Brown's.
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The Post then spot-checked other Brown articles published throughout 2003 and compared them with articles published earlier in other media outlets. Post editors found 12 additional examples in which Brown's articles copied phrases or sentences in whole or in part from other publications, without attribution to those publications.
None of this is all that interesting except that the Post buried the story on the back pages of some little read section of the paper. C'mon guys! If you're doing the right thing be proud. Put it on the front page!
Aside: Has anyone heard who he was allegedly plagiarizing?
Additional aside: The Post never uses the 'p' word. Why not?
Posted by Walter at November 17, 2003 08:32 PMWow. I've been reading his columns for what seems like forever. Sounds like plagiarism to me--I wish I knew where he'd been stealing his work, though.
Posted by: zombyboy at November 17, 2003 08:39 PM