Monthly Archives: August 2008

Fooled you, Olympics viewers, world

By Michael Becker | Published: August 13, 2008
Talk about trick­sters. Several news agen­cies are report­ing (here and here, for exam­ple) this morn­ing that some sig­nif­i­cant por­tions of the open­ing cer­e­mony of the Olympics were faked. The cute lit­tle girl who sang the Chinese national anthem was lip synch­ing; the real lit­tle girl singer, it seems, had crooked teeth and wouldn’t look good [...]
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Plagiarism fallout in Texas

By Michael Becker | Published: August 8, 2008
As the Texas press picked up on the plagiarism scandal, new facts emerged, including facts from the point of view of the publisher and reporter of the small Texas weekly.
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Plagiarism in east Texas

By Michael Becker | Published: August 7, 2008
Plagiarism, that slowly dying con­cept that writ­ers who make money off their words cling to, has reared its ugly head in Montgomery County, Texas, accord­ing to Jody Rosen, a music critic for Slate. In an arti­cle pub­lished yes­ter­day, Rosen tells of how he dis­cov­ered that the Bulletin, a small, weekly alter­na­tive news­pa­per, had clipped para­graphs [...]
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