In Ironic Twist, Ex-New York Times Editor Jill Abramson Accused of Plagiarism in New Book About Journalism
LatestFormer New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson’s new book, Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts, was a punchline before it even got released, thanks to an abundance of inaccuracies found in galley copies circulating the media world. But now that it’s out, it seems the inaccuracies were only the tip of the iceberg.
According to a Twitter thread from Vice News Tonight correspondent Michael Moynihan, not only was Abramson sloppy when it came to gathering her facts, she also appears to have lifted passages nearly verbatim from other outlets. In the news business (and all businesses), that’s known as “plagiarism.”