[lbo-talk] more Churchill

[info at pulpculture.org]

It doesn't look like everything was about an error of omission, but an 
outright act of plagiarism. as for editors, hang out at the Freelance List 
and learn that they're lucky to get 20-25/hr, which is really about 15/hr 
after taxes, expenses, insurance, retirement, etc. they work in an 
environment that doesn't give a shit about accuracy and often work with 
professors who don't either. the rest of the professors knickle and dime 
them to death so that their final hourly rate is slowly chiseled away until 
it isn't worth arguing with.


>But in damning example after example after example, the report documents 
>instances in which it could not find any evidence to back Churchill's 
>claims and in which it did find overwhelming evidence to back those who 
>filed complaints against him. The committee noted, for example, a number 
>of similarities in an article Churchill wrote in 1992 with an article 
>published the previous year by Fay G. Cohen, a professor at Dalhousie 
>University, in Nova Scotia. There can be "little doubt" that large 
>portions of the essay are from Cohen's work, the report said.
>
>In one instance, it found a footnote of more than 100 words that was 
>"identical to the keystroke," except that Churchill used an acute accent 
>over the e in one tribe's name while Cohen left the e without an accent.
>

Bitch | Lab
http://blog.pulpculture.org