Ethics. Love 'em or hate 'em, they're here...And since they're here, they will be broken.
The editorial adviser at The State News passed this e-mail along to staffers: The publisher of the Argus-Press in Owosso caught one of his staff members plagiarizing from a high school student!
When the student was asked where she got her information for a story on changes to her hometown's city, she said her notes came from the Laingsburg City Council meeting. When the Argus-Press reporter was asked to show his notes from his story, he resigned.
It turns out 90-95 percent of the Argus-Press reporter's story came from this high schooler's article.
Usually it's the other way around, of course.
This surely comes as a wakeup call to all of us (those, I mean) who thought it safe to take from puny high school newspapers.
Should the Argus-Press hire Lindsey Fausett, the girl from the Laingsburg Informer (the high school paper), or pay her back handsomely?
Perhaps the reporter from the Argus-Press can still get a job as a blogger.
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By all means, hire the high schooler. She's the one with initiative.
Stealing is stealing whether it is a story or a bike. Someone once told me that if it feels unethical, it probably is.
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