PLAGIARISM has become so commonplace that the Washington Post reported an instance of it this past March with the lead sentence: “The plagiarism virus has claimed another prominent journalist.”
I have never been plagiarized in the full legal sense of having long verbatim passages lifted, but I have been “plagia-romped,” to coin a word for a practice widespread enough to need one. The worst offender was a leading news magazine whose reporter used the standard technique: she quoted me by name once, and thereafter closely paraphrased passages from my book.
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