Plagiarism and Gerald Boyd of the NY Times

By Edward Barrera on November 23, 2006 11:58 PM | |

Stealing someone's else work and calling it your own is one of the worst sins in journalism. The death of Gerald Boyd, former managing editor of the NY Times, starkly makes the case. Though he was not the one who plagiarized or just plain made stuff up, his obituary puts front and center the stain that destroyed his career nevertheless.

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