The question I asked, was about Ms. Myer giving credit to Mr. Tyson for seeming to use so much of his article from the Welch News on the 19th and also in the PN&S on the 24th?
Below is the simplest of definitions for Plagiarism and not the longer form:
PlagiarismThe act of appropriating the literary composition of another author, or excerpts, ideas, or passages therefrom, and passing the material off as one's own creation.
What did I expect from them? There were several paths a response could have taken that would have fit into their standards.
1. Mr. Spanner whom I have dealt with several times is usually very professional, friendly and easy to work with. I may not always like what he says, but he is as I noted.
2. Mr. LaPlann is another story. Seems arrogant, elitist and stuffy to be kind. He for any of you who may not know is a staunch rappite and one of the major Editors that seem to insure Vienna seems to never have anything but peaches and cream occur in it? A response from him has been like pulling teeth from a Hen over the years.
Would they circle the wagons and defend Ms. Meyer's actions? Or would they as seems to have been the case try to pretend it never happened?
YOU read, than you decide:
From:
Lawrence Wilson
To
In the John Tyson- The Welch News Article (19 Sept 2017) and in the PN&S, 24 Sept 2017, he wrote:
Bourdain talks McDowell County Experience.
"I would never in my life dare, as a New Yorker, give advice to West Virginians. That what everybody's been doing for 200 years and I don't want to be that guy".
"I say I'm here and that I'm having an amazing time and I get a bunch of idiots from my side of the isle who have just kind of written off the place as a bunch of hillbillies down there. These same jokes you've been putting up with 100 years. That makes me angry".
"I am comfortable in places that are different, so, I didn't admire the intolerance, the sort of resistance in myself, to this place in my own country. How come I'm so comfortable in Vietnam and Lebanon but instinctively, like so many other New, see West Virginia as a whole other land?"
"genuinely hospitable, warm, straight-talkers with a dry sense of humor".
"They're big city problems too. Anyone who is looking down on West Virginia better check their own community because these problems are in way unique to West Virginia.
In the Ms. Myer- Opinion of the 24th, she wrote:
Bourdain's positive visit.
"I would never in my life dare, as a New Yorker, give advice to West Virginians. That what everybody's been doing for 200 years and I don't want to be that guy".
"I say I'm here and that I'm having an amazing time and I get a bunch of idiots from my side of the isle who have just kind of written off the place as a bunch of hillbillies down there. These same jokes you've been putting up with 100 years. That makes me angry".
"I am comfortable in places that are different, so, I didn't admire the intolerance, the sort of resistance in myself, to this place in my own country. How come I'm so comfortable in Vietnam and Lebanon but instinctively, like so many other New, see West Virginia as a whole other land?"
"genuinely hospitable, warm, straight-talkers with a dry sense of humor".
"They're big city problems too. Anyone who is looking down on West Virginia better check their own community because these problems are in way unique to West Virginia".
It seems there is a tremendous similarity in both articles; albeit hers is far shorter. About 30- 35% of her article appear to be from Mr. Tyson's article?
Isn't there an obligation to give credit to another writer when one uses their material? I have been led to believe that not doing so constitutes "Plagiarism"?
Does the Paper have a Policy on this type of thing or is it foot loose and fancy free"?
This lack of response from the paper's most important Editors/Publisher seems to indicate the "We see nothing, we know nothing, we hear nothing" that is so indicative of many things that happen in our little corner of the World. 'nuff said'.