. . . that’s kind of a large hint that maybe a journalism career isn’t going to work out for you. Consider the case of Columbia University journalism student Jade Bonacolta, who decided that a great way to write a story would be to plagiarize a New York Times article published two days earlier.
This is stunning to me: Isn’t Columbia an elite Ivy League institution, the kind of school where you don’t even bother to apply unless you’re a valedictorian with a perfect SAT score who spent your summers working with orphaned leper children in Botswana?
So how is it that a student is smart enough to get into Columbia University, yet too stupid to figure out that she can’t get away with stealing a story from the New York Times?
Recently exposed serial plagiarist Jonah Lehrer was also a Columbia alumnus — a neuroscience major, no less — so maybe these “elite” schools are chock full of cheaters.
Obama went to Columbia, so it looks like they have been accepting incompetent and corrupt people for a very long time.
You don’t get expelled for that? If only in the Spartan way of punishing you for getting caught?
Olbermann went to Columbia
Geraldo Rivera’s journalism degree is from Columbia.
Didn’t Olbermann go to the donkey semen collecting school down the road from Cornell?
Bill Maher went to Cornell but not the donkey school.
Probably got an “A” for the assignment, and a bonus job interview for the NYT immediately after graduation.
Someone notify ‘Lesser’ Ezra Klein; a next generation Journolister is waiting for her invite!
You win the ‘Best Comment Award’.
I must disagree, Stacy. Plagiariasm obviously suits you for a distinguished career at NYT, TNR, Time…
Columbia hired Navasky that old defender of Hiss and the Rosenbergs to teach journalism and run the Columbia Journalism Review.
I got yer Jade picture Right Here (click). She’s the one on the right.
no he did not
I KNOW, I KNOW!!!! He’ll land a job @ the NY Times…he’ll fit right in.
I don’t see the problem. They should give this young lady a full professorship and tenure already.