The Wentegate affair and much of the traditional media’s reaction to it really tell us something about the mainstream media.
Margaret Wente, who is documented to be a serial-plagiarist has already gotten defended by a few mainstream journalists (Jesse Brown with Maclean’s, Terence Corcoran and Dan Delmar of the National Post and even a Toronto Star boy Tim Harper). These people, as the superb Sixth Estate points out are defending plagiarism; they are rallying, in one way or another, behind a person who has plagiarised multiple times (without consequence).
The main defence, hopefully, comes out of ignorance. These people (Read more…)