To the editor,
In your March 2 issue you carried an article on plagiarism titled “Unoriginal sin.” The general tone of the article was a condemnation of plagiarism and the efforts by the universities to stop cheating. You also mention measures by a newspaper against a reporter who took stories from the internet.
A few pages later in The Coast was a feature by Jane Kansas. Knowing her journalistic history I would have to agree, that “They believe that honesty and integrity are not as important as they used to be and sometimes dishonesty gets you ahead.”
By Bruce Stevens
This article appears in Mar 16-22, 2006.