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Rolling Stone draws fire for attribution SNAFUs in Michele Bachmann profile
The magazine is taking some heat today for lifting quotes in Matt Taibbi's hit piece on Minnesota's 2012 Tea Party hopeful Michele Bachmann.
In the story, posted online Wednesday, Taibbi borrows heavily from a 2006 profile of Bachmann by G.R. Anderson, a former Minneapolis City Pages reporter who now teaches journalism at the University of Minnesota. The thin sourcing, as Abe Sauer argues over at The Awl, is part of a "parade of uncredited use of material" from local blogs and reporters who "have dogged Bachmann for years now."
But the larger issue for journalism's ethical watchdogs concerns the several unattributed quotes Sauer spotted in Taibbi's piece, which Rolling Stone executive editor Eric Bates explained away by saying he'd cut out the attributions due to "space concerns" and that he would "get some links included in the story online."
At least one plagiarism "expert" doesn't buy Bates' logic.
"Attribution is the last thing an editor should cut!!!!" Jack Shafer, who is known to grill copy-stealers in his media column for Slate (and who used to edit two alt-weeklies similar to City Pages), told The Cutline via email. "How big was the art hole on that piece? Huge, I'll bet."
Shafer added: "If an editor deletes attribution, can the writer be called a plagiarist? I don't think so. Is that what happened? If Taibbi approved the deletions, it's another question."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecu...plagiarism-flap-over-michele-bachmann-profile
The magazine is taking some heat today for lifting quotes in Matt Taibbi's hit piece on Minnesota's 2012 Tea Party hopeful Michele Bachmann.
In the story, posted online Wednesday, Taibbi borrows heavily from a 2006 profile of Bachmann by G.R. Anderson, a former Minneapolis City Pages reporter who now teaches journalism at the University of Minnesota. The thin sourcing, as Abe Sauer argues over at The Awl, is part of a "parade of uncredited use of material" from local blogs and reporters who "have dogged Bachmann for years now."
But the larger issue for journalism's ethical watchdogs concerns the several unattributed quotes Sauer spotted in Taibbi's piece, which Rolling Stone executive editor Eric Bates explained away by saying he'd cut out the attributions due to "space concerns" and that he would "get some links included in the story online."
At least one plagiarism "expert" doesn't buy Bates' logic.
"Attribution is the last thing an editor should cut!!!!" Jack Shafer, who is known to grill copy-stealers in his media column for Slate (and who used to edit two alt-weeklies similar to City Pages), told The Cutline via email. "How big was the art hole on that piece? Huge, I'll bet."
Shafer added: "If an editor deletes attribution, can the writer be called a plagiarist? I don't think so. Is that what happened? If Taibbi approved the deletions, it's another question."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecu...plagiarism-flap-over-michele-bachmann-profile
