#4- Plagiarism and Fabrication
Recently Mike Bloomberg had to make amends to many of his policy proposals. For those who haven't been on any social media or news site in the past year and a half, Mike Bloomberg is a billionaire businessman and former New York mayor who is running for president as a democrat. Personally I could care less about politics, what I care about also starts with a "p" though. If you were thinking I meant anything other than plagiarism than you'd be dead wrong. Plagiarism is an egregious offense in the field of mass communication. A good majority of our work is original writing and the other bit is cited and referenced statistics, stories, or other info. If some one stole my hard written work I would be especially angry, that's why I take such displeasure in hearing of professionals committing "errors" of this sort. In this case Bloomberg was accused of plagiarism in a good amount of his policies.
According to the quotes obtained by the site Intelligencer, “[A]t least eight Bloomberg plans or accompanying fact sheets were direct copies of material from media outlets including CNN, Time, and CBS, a research center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the American Medical Association, Everytown for Gun Safety, Building America’s Future Educational Fund, and other organizations.” This is indeed a hefty amount of thievery.
Although, according to a representative of Bloomberg the proper citations have been edited in to the policies that were kept. This indicates that at least some of them were tossed completely. While other candidates such as Joe Biden have also been accused of plagiarism in the past it's hard to believe that a man worth 61.9 billion can't pay for some to edit the policies he and his team "write" for plagiarism. They seem to be playing the original omission of the citations off as an innocent mistake but the reality is that without them, publishing those policy plans was stealing, even if Bloomberg co-funds some of the companies they ripped off. All in all I can just say one thing, cite your sources and check for "accidental plagiarism" especially if you're running for President of the United States for crying out loud.
According to the quotes obtained by the site Intelligencer, “[A]t least eight Bloomberg plans or accompanying fact sheets were direct copies of material from media outlets including CNN, Time, and CBS, a research center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the American Medical Association, Everytown for Gun Safety, Building America’s Future Educational Fund, and other organizations.” This is indeed a hefty amount of thievery.
Although, according to a representative of Bloomberg the proper citations have been edited in to the policies that were kept. This indicates that at least some of them were tossed completely. While other candidates such as Joe Biden have also been accused of plagiarism in the past it's hard to believe that a man worth 61.9 billion can't pay for some to edit the policies he and his team "write" for plagiarism. They seem to be playing the original omission of the citations off as an innocent mistake but the reality is that without them, publishing those policy plans was stealing, even if Bloomberg co-funds some of the companies they ripped off. All in all I can just say one thing, cite your sources and check for "accidental plagiarism" especially if you're running for President of the United States for crying out loud.
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