“(N)o plagiarist can excuse the wrong by showing how much of his work he did not pirate.” — Judge Learned Hand Mike Lester (AMS) is hardly the only conservative to be dancing on the grave of Claudine Gay’s career, now that she has been pressured into resigning as president of Harvard University. I begin today with […]
Ed Wexler poses the question of whether Dianne Feinstein learned anything from the results of Ruth Bader Ginsburg lingering on the court so long that Donald Trump got to choose her successor. The answer is “Apparently not,” because Ginsburg was mentally sharp right to the end, while Feinstein has reportedly been less so, needing prompts […]
Pros & Cons (KFS) sets the mood for the day. Between what’s actually going on and what people are griping about, it’s getting tiresome out there. Maybe Lyndon avoids political talk out of patient privacy and maybe he avoids it because after eight hours, he’s had enough. But I’m not getting $75 an hour to […]
There’s a bit of a pissing match breaking out on social media over purported plagiarism, which I’m not going to be too specific about because it is inconsequential and it would be nice if it died out on its own, with both parties a little embarrassed by the whole thing. Instead, the above will serve […]
I don’t know if Paul Berge considers this a cartoon or if he just posted it on his page to amuse himself and his regulars. Machs nix. When I used to do a presentation to high school students about political cartooning, I began by noting that they’ve usually got some wiseass who passes rude things […]
ABC7, an ABC affiliate for the greater Washington DC area, recently looked into the cartoon plagiarism of the Montgomery Sentinel. The report was mostly reporting the paper’s position that they’ve taken corrective action and are moving past the issue and Councilman Tom Moore, who exposed the paper. Here’s the report: At this point, it’s clear […]
Brian Karem, the Executive Editor at The Sentinel Newspapers, has issued an apology and statement to the cartoonist’s whose works William Charles copied, manipulated and signed off as his own. But the troubling line in the statement was that the paper will continue to use cartoons by William Charles in the future. Here’s the full […]
Rockville MD councilman Tom Moore has exposed an ongoing blatant case of mass editorial cartooning plagiarism wherein the artist is removing the original artists’ name and signing it as his/her own. A cartoonist is identified only as William Charles who used a variety of editorial cartoonist and New Yorker cartoonist’s work. The Montgomery Sentinel is […]
The Knight Foundation paid Jonah Lehrer $20,000 to speak at a Knight Foundation luncheon wherein he talked about his plagiarism and fabrications. From Poynter: At a talk this afternoon in Miami, Jonah Lehrer acknowledged his plagiarism and fabrications and described how he hopes to redeem his reputation. Lehrer read prepared remarks then answered questions from […]
Eleven days before the close of an Indiegogo campaign to raise $35,000 to support the continuation of editorial cartoonist Bill Day’s career, comes an allegation that Bill used an image from the website DeviantArt in one of his cartoons without citation. The cartoon, on the topic of gun control, features an assault rifle with a […]
The recent cases of alleged plagiarism by Jeff Stahler (Post Dispatch) and David Simpson (Urban Tulsa) in the last couple of months has raised the question of journalism standards and cartooning. Editorial cartoonist Rob Tornoe writing for Editor and Publisher writes reactions from AAEC President John Cole, a statement from Jeff MacNelly from 1990 and […]
Yesterday’s editorial cartoon by Columbus Dispatch cartoonist Jeff Stahler has a striking similarity to a 2009 New Yorker cartoon by David Sipress (see both below). I asked Jeff for a response to which he’d only say, “my only explaination [sic] is that it’s a coincidence.” This is the second coincidence this year. Last March, one […]
A David Simpson editorial cartoon in the latest issue of The Urban Tulsa might look eerily familiar to fans of the late Jeff MacNelly. The original MacNelly cartoon depicts is a scene of a military junk yard with President Jimmy Carter trying to jump start an aged jet with a beat-up pickup truck. The Simpson […]