September 6, 2014

"A little more than a month after he lost his job at BuzzFeed for widespread plagiarism..."

"... Benny Johnson has landed on his feet at National Review."
National Review editor Rich Lowry acknowledged that Johnson "made a terrible mistake," but said he deserved a second chance. "He's a talented journalist, with obviously a lot to contribute...."

18 comments:

Ambrose said...

At least he won't go off the rails like Steyn, Derbyshire or Coulter.

glenn said...

DUMB.

traditionalguy said...

Well he had better big time contribute footnotes to the material put in quotation marks.

Copying other good ideas is OK but the original author should get at least a footnote...written in Chinese maybe.

somefeller said...

First Ben Domenech, now Benny Johnson. What's the deal with conservative writers named Ben? One more and we'll have a bona fide trend on our hands.

David said...

How nice for Benny. His tweets sound like he doesn't quite get that he has lost credibility though. Mr. Breezy Happy Fool.

Michael K said...

Maybe they had room with Derbyshire gone. I read Taki's Magazine to read his stuff. Plus Dalrymple and Steve Sailor.

Mark said...

They call what buzzfeed produces journalism?

I call it Facebook junk mail.

Eric said...

Lowry has really made a hash of things over at NR. I usually only check in there now to read Kevin Williamson.

rhhardin said...

He should start lifting stuff from Kathryn Lopez and see if anybody notices.

George M. Spencer said...

He didn't make "a" terrible "mistake."

On multiple occasions he consciously stole the work of others and passed it off as his own and his publication.

In The National Review's defense, the linked article says he "will start by giving advice and running NR's Twitter and Facebook accounts." Sounds more like a short-term freelance gig whose purpose will be to help whoever actually runs the publication's social media learn how to make them snazzier. No writing involved.

Curious George said...

The POTUS and V-POTUS are plagiarists. If that's okay then I think it's okay for a social media director.

Guildofcannonballs said...

"He should start lifting stuff from Kathryn Lopez and see if anybody notices."

This is not better than, but it is equal to, the Great Betamax3000.

Thank you.

Fernandinande said...

Michael K said...
Maybe they had room with Derbyshire gone. I read Taki's Magazine to read his stuff. Plus Dalrymple and Steve Sailor[sic].


Derbyshire and Sailer are both (mostly?) at www.unz.com.

Dalrymple seems to be rambling...

Michael said...

Dalrymple rambles, eloquently, through the collapsing culture. He ignores politics. It is self evident that the political scene reflects the insanely self absorbed, increasingly helpless masses.

Mary Beth said...

Wait, if the plagiarism was singled out, that means there's also original stuff at Buzzfeed? The articles I see seem to be "look what I found on reddit" summaries. (I'm basing that opinion on what I see people link to on FB, I stopped going to Buzzfeed a couple of years ago.)

Revenant said...

Odd choice on National Review's part.

Writ Small said...

Maybe NR is planning to back Rand Paul.

Anonymous said...

"deserves a second chance"

The great thing about this is that my friends, and, especially -- I -- always deserve a second chance.

My enemies don't deserve one. It's evidence of racism if they get one.