Reporting on the news that Harvard's President Gay is resigning over her numerous plagiarism issues, this CNN anchor, Matt Egan, tried to paint a rosy picture of Claudine Gay and it was totally awkward.
Never try to white-knight without a solid idea of what you're about to say.
Watch this clown:
We should note that Claudine Gay has not been accused of stealing anyone's ideas in any of her writings. She has been accused of sort of more like copying other peoples writings without attribution. So it's been more sloppy attribution than stealing anyone's ideas.
IF ONLY WE HAD A PRECISE WORD THAT MEANS "COPYING OTHER PEOPLE."
She hasn't stolen anyone's ideas, you see. She simply copied and pasted other people's ideas into her papers, didn't put them in quotation marks, presented them as her own work, and didn't properly attribute them.
All you have to do is change the definition of plagiarism a little bit and then it's suddenly no longer plagiarism!
THIS IS CNN!
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