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Alaska Miller
07/08/09

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College kids are funny.
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Mo MoDo
07/08/09

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Plagiarism lesson: Write for years, get a NYT column, win a Pulitzer and THEN start stealing from people. Kids today just don't want to put in the time.
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eeeradicator
07/08/09

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She is a second year college student, and I am supposed to be surprised that she cheats on assignments? Not so much. What happened to that other young woman who did not graduate from her journalism program because of a snafu over submitting the same work to two profs? These two need to hook up.
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MissNormaDesmond
07/08/09

@eeeradicator: What's that supposed to mean? If you're trying to say all college students cheat on assignments, no, they don't.
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Pope John Peeps II
07/08/09

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That Talese interview sounds really, really made up. Like... seriously made up.
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raincoaster
07/08/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Agreed 100%. Too bad the blog's now private:

[hlmacarthur.wordpress.com]

Can't find anything on Google, but if I were at home with my stack of old Spy magazines, I'm relatively sure I'd find it somewhere in there, maybe with Henry Kissinger?
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Pope John Peeps II
07/08/09

@raincoaster: No I just think the whole interview itself is made up. Maybe for an assignment, maybe just for her own kicks. At best she had a couple of minutes with him on the phone.

But I've done a LOT of interviews, with a lot of people, and no one has ever "turned the tables" on me with personal, salacious questions. Especially not another professional.

And to use your interview to insinuate that Talese - who's married to the fabulous Nan Talese - is interested in you and suggests a "meet up" seem to me to be the height of egotism and asshole journalism. Making journalism touch on the personal is endearing in stories. I do it too. But then there's this bullshit, where the journalism becomes about you.

This is fake. The more I read it, the more I'm convinced it's absolutely fake.
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raincoaster
07/09/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Surely someone at Gawker who gets paid for this sort of thing could just PHONE Talese and ask?
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robrob9
07/08/09

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Really? A whole post dedicated to the dismissal of an intern -- intern -- at some middling newspaper in Colorado. Really? And she's worthy of national humiliation ...why? Is this someone's ex-girlfriend at Gawker?

Cajun Boy, you're an asshole.
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robrob9
07/08/09

@robrob9: Okay, so, I just read her blog bio. Maybe a national frying pan to the face was in order after all. Still not totally convinced this merited the esteemed Gawker snarkification (you've got her sandwiched between items about Sarah Palin and Michael Jackson, for chrissakes), but that bio definitely makes me want to yell at her. If that was what pushed you over the edge to post this, well, I guess I can understand.

I'm sorry Ole Miss fired your dad.
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MissNormaDesmond
07/08/09

@robrob9: So if someone famous does something stupid and dishonest they should be grilled for it, but if someone unknown does it it's okay? I wouldn't accept that in reverse, so I don't know why I should accept it forwards. Being an intern is hardly an excuse for egregious plagiarism; grade school kids know you're not supposed to copy other people's work.
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TedSez
07/08/09

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One of the passages she stole was from a writer's first-person account of what it was like when his own daughter died.

That's a level of wrongness beyond plagiarism, and beyond unforgivable.
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Richard Lawson
07/08/09

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Gainesville and Colorado Springs? I'd start plagiarizing too if meant getting the hell out of those burgs.
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Satyrica
07/07/09

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Pore, not pour.
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MissNormaDesmond
07/08/09

@Satyrica: Thank you.
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jorel845
07/07/09

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Amazing how your digital footprint doesn't quite expire in equal measures.

She definitely can write, but the underwear bit is pathetic. Her savy is questionable, as she plagarised the NYT, and not something smaller and less well known.
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The Cajun Boy
07/07/09

@jorel845: I think you have to give her a bit of a pass for the underwear bit. She's young, a second-year student, and quite naive. She's obviously got some growing up to do.
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aLostLady
07/07/09

@The Cajun Boy: She hasn't grown out of the cutesy, I-think-I'm-being-refreshingly-honest-when-really-I'm-just-painting-a-half-naked-picture-of-my-cute-self-while-trying-to-play-journalist kind of thought process. Unless she thinks of herself as the next Carrie Bradshaw.

For the most part, her writing was brisk, showed a lot of personality, and was interesting. It's a shame she felt she had to lift from another publication.
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ThatMother-Chucker
07/08/09

@jorel845: Never have I ever... written about my underwear in J-School.

I don't care how cute you think you're being, or how young you are. Age shouldn't be a pass for an interview piece with serious gag factor. And anyone who gets into writing to be the next Carrie Bradshaw should quit now.
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badass-boi
07/08/09

@ThatMother-Chucker: Not so fast chucker. This ain't your dad's journalism; writers and bloggers with colorful writing styles rule the day -- the 5 Ws and beat checks are dead. Before this cluster-chuck, she would have likely gone further playing the spunky, passionate, young writer than being a hard-bitten reliable newshound. Right? No. Realistic? You bet yur ass.
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snugbug
07/08/09

@jorel845: That was my thought, too: dilettante. Thus is not how you rip sh*t off. You grab a foot-tall stack of Playboys and Esquires from the 60s and 70s--where some of the most brilliant American long-form journalism or criticism ever has been published--and steal from there. Or lift off ideas for heds, ledes, etc. None of that stuff is archived online so it's practically untraceable these days. Plus, it's brilliant.
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raincoaster
07/08/09

@snugbug: Hey, hey I said it first! Look at the timestamp!
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raincoaster
07/07/09

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Have you plugged the Talese interview into Google and seen if it matches up with a 10-year-old Playgirl interview with Tom Wolfe or something?
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Tremonius
07/07/09

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Maybe they're the same homeless, who winter in Colorado Springs. Anyway, it's not Grand Theft, mere shoplifting.
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