1. Globe and Mail's defence of Wente is she's sloppy, not a plagiarist. That suggests way out of this mess: http://www.j-source.ca/article/globe-and-mail-editor-chief-%E2%80%9Csloppy-standards%E2%80%9D-where-they-found-issues-wente …
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2. The best way to understand Wente's plagiarism problem is that she's not really a columnist but an aggregator working in wrong form.
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3. Many of us link on twitter & blog posts to articles we like. Wente does same, except she takes words & doesn't put quotes around them.
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4. Globe should make Wente into a blogger or twitter & teach her proper protocol about quotes. Problem solved.
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5. The deep roots of Wente-ism is fact that Canada was, when she made her career, a provincial country where few read foreign press.
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6. So Wente was able to make a lucrative career by rehashing what she read in NY Times & WSJ, since few Globe readers read those.
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7. Wente's downfall came from fact we now have something called the internet which allows Canadians see the sources she's regurgitating.
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8. Beyond the embarrassment to the Globe, this Wente business really reflects badly on Canadian establishment, which never sanctions its own
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9. Wente continues to have position with think tank (energy probe) & University of Toronto saw her as fit to sit on book award jury.
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