10/15/2024
When has the history of the NYT lying been something to brag about or take home to Mother to try to put the NYT back on the shelf of TRUTH with MOM?
Place the NYT article as part of the FUNNIES part of the newspaper for lack of honesty/integrity and put a rubber band around the book to indicate when you remove the rubber band, open and read the book that the book is stretching the truth.
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Chris Rufo refutes New York Times coverage on Kamala Harris plagiarism story: ‘Lied by omission’ (msn.com)
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Well, ironic, isn’t it, that Veritas is the motto of……
Rufo: It’s brazen, it’s repeated, and it’s very serious.
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo accused the New York Times on Monday of undermining his exclusive story on Vice President Kamala Harris allegedly plagiarizing passages in her book “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer.”
Rufo first reported so-called “plagiarism hunter,” Austrian professor Stefan Weber, finding 27 times that Harris and her co-author allegedly committed some form of plagiarism, writing, “24 fragments are plagiarism from other authors, [and] 3 fragments are self-plagiarism from a work written with a co-author.”
“Taken in total, there is certainly a breach of standards here. Harris and her co-author duplicated long passages nearly verbatim without proper citation and without quotation marks, which is the textbook definition of plagiarism,” Rufo wrote.
The New York Times, however, downplayed the impact of these instances, citing only five passages from Rufo. The story was headlined, “Conservative Activist Seizes on Passages From Harris Book,” and has three credited authors.
Chris Rufo reported on more than two dozen instances of plagiarism in one of Vice President Kamala Harris’ books. Getty Images© Left: (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
“In a review of the book, The New York Times found that none of the passages in question took the ideas or thoughts of another writer, which is considered the most serious form of plagiarism. Instead, the sentences copy descriptions of programs or statistical information that appear elsewhere,” the article read.
It also cited a plagiarism consultant, Jonathan Bailey, who said Rufo had taken minor infractions and tried to “make a big deal of it.” Bailey wrote on X on Monday that he had not performed a full analysis of Harris’ book.
“For those coming here from the NY Times Article. I want to be clear that I have NOT performed a full analysis of the book. My quotes were based on information provided to me by the reporters and spoke only about those passages,” he wrote.
Rufo took to X after the story was published to call out the New York Times, accusing it of misrepresenting the story.
“This past Saturday, I provided the Times not only with my written analysis, which argues that there are ‘more than a dozen,’ but with Weber’s full dossier, which included 18 allegations of varying severity. So, the Times deliberately withheld this crucial contextual information from its readers and from the supposed plagiarism expert, who, based on this limited information, called it ‘not serious.’ They could have easily confirmed the ‘more than a dozen’ point, but instead, lied by omission,” Rufo wrote.
He also attacked the article for citing “some academics” who have characterized his past reporting and research as racist.
A New York Times article argued the instances from Rufo were not an example of the “most serious form of plagiarism.” Fox News© Fox News Photo/Joshua Comins
Rufo wrote, “This is just a way of laundering in a smear to complement the absurd headline that my reporting on plagiarism by a presidential candidate is ‘seiz[ing] on’ a transgression that is ‘not serious’—in other words, framing me as the villain of the story, rather than the plagiarism by a presidential candidate.”
He added, “My rule of working with journalists is simple: If you treat me fairly, I treat you fairly. After publication of the Times piece, I called the reporter and editor at the Times to ask politely for a correction. The editor, Mary Suh, had nothing but excuses. And so, we’re going to fight this one out. They should issue a correction, but, even if they do not, I will correct the record in public.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the New York Times for a comment but did not immediately receive a response.
In a comment to the New York Times, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign dismissed the accusations from Rufo’s report.
“This is a book that’s been out for 15 years, and the vice president clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout,” Harris spokesperson Jamie Singer said.
The Harris campaign has denied the accusations of plagiarism. AP Newsroom© AP Photo/Susan Walsh
Fox News Digital independently verified that Harris’ book features verbatim and near-verbatim reproductions from a 2008 NBC News report, a press release from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a Wikipedia page and a report from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), among others.
Original article source: Chris Rufo refutes New York Times coverage on Kamala Harris plagiarism story: ‘Lied by omission’
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10/14/2024
New York Post
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WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is facing allegations of plagiarism after numerous passages from the Democratic presidential nominee’s 2009 book “Smart on Crime” were discovered to closely resemble — or perfectly match — wording from other sources.
Harris, then San Francisco’s district attorney, wrote the book promoting a reform-minded approach to prosecuting crimes alongside ghostwriter Joan O’C. Hamilton — who told The Post when contacted Monday that she was surprised to learn about the alleged copying.
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo published the allegations Monday and credited an investigation by Austrian “plagiarism hunter” Stefan Weber — with Rufo posting screenshots on X of five examples in which the wording in the book closely resembles other sources
The five highlighted passages indicate that Harris lifted wording from an Associated Press article, a John Jay College of Criminal Justice press release, a Wikipedia article, a Bureau of Justice Assistance report and an Urban Institute report.
“Oh gosh,” Harris’ ghostwriter told The Post over the phone shortly after the allegations were published.
“I haven’t seen anything,” she added. “I’m afraid I can’t talk to you right now, though, I’m in the middle of something. Let me go try to figure that out.”https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1845848760620073048
A report compiled by Weber and published by Rufo said there were numerous other issues detected in the book.
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“Kamala Harris fabricated a source reference, inventing a nonexistent page number. The self-promotional content from Goodwill Industries was copied verbatim without citing the source (Goodwill Industries was her ‘primary partner’ on in [sic] the ‘Back on Track’ program),” Weber wrote.
“In many other instances, even when a source was cited with a footnote, the text was directly copied and pasted without using quotation marks. Quotation marks would have been the most transparent and honest approach, also in non-academic books. Further signs of dishonesty may be evident when sources were copied but specific details were altered, such as replacing a Subway store owner with a sandwich shop clerk (p. 124) or highlighting Southeast Asia in the context of the US gang problem (p. 184).”
Spokespeople for both Harris’ presidential campaign and her vice presidential office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Plagiarism allegations often are fatal to the careers of journalists and academics, but politicians have survived similar controversies in the past — most notably retiring President Biden, who plagiarized a paper during his first year in law school, and during his 1987 run for the presidency misappropriated the family history and public remarks of British politician Neil Kinnock.
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