Also read this piece from Maclean's http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/09/23/globe-and-mail-or-cut-and-paste/

And this excellant piece on Wentegate  http://j-source.ca/article/john-miller-wentegate

Sorry Wente's piece was called "The Collapse of the Liberal Church" http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/the-collapse-of-the-liberal-church/article4443228/

Even through she says in it that the Church is literaly dieing, I must have confused it with another peiece called "the Death of the Liberal Church"  I do not know why? 

What's with journalists these days? I mean, Wente not some kid fresh out of Ryerson. She's been around for years and is fairly respected. I read her. Mostly disagree with her views but her writing is good.

In the US, there was a similar issue with Fareed Zarkaria recently. CNN and Time both suspended him to investigate. Again, a respected journalist getting lazy?

THere was an interview about it on As It Happens tonight and it was quite interesting. Apparently in the States, they take this all much more seriously and there's an outside agency news organizations call on to investigate. The journalism professor who was talking to them met one of the investigators who was stunned to learn that our press doesn't take these things that seroiusly.

Mendalla

The case is getting coverage in the US including this web site, which suggests that Wente's case could be much more serious and affect the Newspaper industry in all of North America in ways that the Zarkaria case and other recent cases have not. 

http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2012/09/24/margaret-wente-plagiarism-scandal/

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The case is causing many to question not just Wente’s writing, but Stead’s capability as a public editor and even the role of the public editor in general. While it may have been a “summer of sin” for U.S. journalism, it could be this Canadian case that truly rattles the industry to its core.

Hmm, Received Wisdom? ;3

She tapping into the Morphogenic Field/Akashic Record?

Were there Celestial Beings there that are giving her a New Religion to be persecuted for?

Again, the point that the interviewee made was that in the US, public editor is usually a quasi-independent ombudsperson while at the G&M she reports to the Editor-in-chief and therefore is more of a spin-doctor to help cover butts.

If Wente has indeed done all that is alleged, it will at least rattle the Globe to its core and I'd hope her bosses (the editors who allowed the material to be published and are defending it even now) will go down with her. Will it affect the broader industry? No. The rest will tut-tut and talk about how awful the Globe was to let it happen and go back to doing it themselves. Until the next scandal.

Mendalla

I think this is the start of the social media revolution holding to account big media.

Or part of the same movement that caused the "News of the World" to shut down, after it was exposed. Another  case of social media fueling or aiding in peoples abilities to hold the powerful  to account.

Twitter is all over this. The blog that has been responsible for the analysis has existed for years, but it was the ability of twitter to connect diverse people, and thus enpower them to demand a response.  https://twitter.com/i/#!/search/realtime/wente

Perhaps this will even end up in Moncton  geting a real news outlet.

I love the fatc that there is a web site called Plagiarism Today.

  Blessed Internet.

The blogger strikes me as somewhat pedantic and with a lot of time on her hands. I pray she will not attempt to analyze my sermons.

Globe takes action on allegations against columnist

Howevr the Globe seems to have made the situation worse for itself.

she failed to make it clear she was quoting someone else’s work in one of her own pieces

 Is her crime according to them.

She’ll continue to write for the paper, he said, adding The Globe would continue to take any complaints against any of its writers seriously.

“We’re not aware of any other situations,” he said.

And yet there are many other "situations" that have been documented and presented to the Globe over the years.

Like this case from the NYTpicker, an american website that covers the New York Times.

http://www.nytpick.com/2009/07/did-globe-and-mail-columnist-steal-from.html

How did Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente put together her July 23 column on the dangers of cell phone use while driving? Well, it appears Wente may have helped herself to some uncredited reporting from the NYT, along with some structural and thematic ideas fromMaureen Dowd.

Wente apparently lifted a quote from one NYT story, took reporting from two NYT stories, and seems to have borrowed her theme and approach from a recent Dowd column on the topic -- and stirred them into a column with no credit to the NYT for any of those elements, under her own byline.

The problem is not the blogger, but Wente's repeated use of other peoples work without giving them credit.  The blogger only started to follow her closely after she spotted Wente stealing from others, and has been documenting her "ethical lapeses" for a few years. For some reason her lates post went viral, and all of the attention it recieved caused the Globe to actually acknowledge the problem.

 But the way the Globe has handle it, has made it worse for them 

No, the person has too much time on their hands, to the point of obsession. I can take Wente or leave her. But the kind of pedantry the blogger shows is not particulalrly helpful nor enlightening.

It seems Wente non apology apology has made things worse for her. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/columnist-margaret-wente-defends-herself/article4565731/  The responses on the Globe web site are not very nice. 

Also her slamming the blogger who pointed this out,( Carol Waini,  a renowned Ottawa artist who has had shows at the National Gallery and elsewhere, and is a full time professor of fine arts) excludes the fact that this is being driven by writers at Macleans, The Guardian etc. as well as twitter. Where they continue to find other examples of her using unattributed sources.