“I certainly didn’t plagiarize in my book, and there’s 70 pages of footnotes showing where I got the information,” Abramson said in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday night. She quotes Thomas as if he’s speaking to her directly,” Frisch wrote on Twitter. “The endnotes do not go into the depth of how much this section about Thomas relied on my article. Frisch’s article is credited in Abramson’s endnotes, but Frisch says the citation isn’t enough. In a Twitter thread, he noted that Merchants of Truth quotes extensively from his 2014 profile of Vice writer Thomas Morton. Writer Ian Frisch says that Abramson also plagiarized from him. While trying to corroborate certain claims, I noticed that it also agiarized passages.- Michael C Moynihan February 6, 2019 The truth promised in Merchants of Truth was often not true. *All three* chapters on Vice were clotted with mistakes. “There’s plenty more - enormous factual errors, other cribbed passages, single or unsourced claims - but this should give a sense,” Moynihan wrote on Twitter. It contains the same information, mostly phrased in the same way. While the Abramson passage contains minor tweaks - like changes to the tense and swapping out “cronies” for “ilk” - it’s still by and large extremely similar to the Ryerson passage. He laments the liberal views of most of the people who pick up his magazine, saying they’re ‘brainwashed by communist propaganda.’” In the magazine, he called young people a bunch of knee-jerk liberals (a phrase McInnes and his cronies use often) who’ll believe anyone with dark skin over anyone with light skin. Moynihan matches that paragraph with a similar passage from the Ryerson Review of Journalism: “In August 2003, McInnes wrote a column in The American Conservative, a magazine run by Pat Buchanan. He lamented the views of his magazine’s readers, saying they were ‘brainwashed by communist propaganda.’” In Merchants of Truth, Abramson writes of Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, “He wrote a column in The American Conservative, a magazine run by Pat Buchanan, calling young people a bunch of knee-jerk liberals (a phrase McInnes and his ilk often used) who would believe anyone with dark skin over anyone with light skin. The compared passages all contain the same information organized in the same way, often contain similar sentence structure, and sometimes contain echoes of exact phrasing. Moynihan compared multiple passages from Abramson’s finished book - which officially came out on Tuesday, February 5 - to passages from articles by other writers. In a lengthy Twitter thread, Vice correspondent Michael C. And this week, she was accused of plagiarizing multiple passages. But last month, she was accused of making factual errors in the book. Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, says she wants to celebrate and protect journalistic standards in her new book Merchants of Truth.
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