National Review editor Rich Lowry acknowledged that Johnson "made a terrible mistake," but said he deserved a second chance. "He's a talented journalist, with obviously a lot to contribute...."
September 6, 2014
"A little more than a month after he lost his job at BuzzFeed for widespread plagiarism..."
"... Benny Johnson has landed on his feet at National Review."
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At least he won't go off the rails like Steyn, Derbyshire or Coulter.
DUMB.
Well he had better big time contribute footnotes to the material put in quotation marks.
Copying other good ideas is OK but the original author should get at least a footnote...written in Chinese maybe.
First Ben Domenech, now Benny Johnson. What's the deal with conservative writers named Ben? One more and we'll have a bona fide trend on our hands.
How nice for Benny. His tweets sound like he doesn't quite get that he has lost credibility though. Mr. Breezy Happy Fool.
Maybe they had room with Derbyshire gone. I read Taki's Magazine to read his stuff. Plus Dalrymple and Steve Sailor.
They call what buzzfeed produces journalism?
I call it Facebook junk mail.
Lowry has really made a hash of things over at NR. I usually only check in there now to read Kevin Williamson.
He should start lifting stuff from Kathryn Lopez and see if anybody notices.
He didn't make "a" terrible "mistake."
On multiple occasions he consciously stole the work of others and passed it off as his own and his publication.
In The National Review's defense, the linked article says he "will start by giving advice and running NR's Twitter and Facebook accounts." Sounds more like a short-term freelance gig whose purpose will be to help whoever actually runs the publication's social media learn how to make them snazzier. No writing involved.
The POTUS and V-POTUS are plagiarists. If that's okay then I think it's okay for a social media director.
"He should start lifting stuff from Kathryn Lopez and see if anybody notices."
This is not better than, but it is equal to, the Great Betamax3000.
Thank you.
Michael K said...
Maybe they had room with Derbyshire gone. I read Taki's Magazine to read his stuff. Plus Dalrymple and Steve Sailor[sic].
Derbyshire and Sailer are both (mostly?) at www.unz.com.
Dalrymple seems to be rambling...
Dalrymple rambles, eloquently, through the collapsing culture. He ignores politics. It is self evident that the political scene reflects the insanely self absorbed, increasingly helpless masses.
Wait, if the plagiarism was singled out, that means there's also original stuff at Buzzfeed? The articles I see seem to be "look what I found on reddit" summaries. (I'm basing that opinion on what I see people link to on FB, I stopped going to Buzzfeed a couple of years ago.)
Odd choice on National Review's part.
Maybe NR is planning to back Rand Paul.
"deserves a second chance"
The great thing about this is that my friends, and, especially -- I -- always deserve a second chance.
My enemies don't deserve one. It's evidence of racism if they get one.
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