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Re: NY Times: Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying from Wikipedia in New Book

by Charles Matthews :: Rate this Message:

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William King wrote:
> http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/editor-of-wired-apologizes-for-copying-from-wikipedia-in-new-book/
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> Chris Anderson, the author, summarized the situation in two words: "Mea culpa."
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Somewhat cynical: they thought they could just cite, looked at the GFDL
and thought "damn, doesn't work that way", and then just went ahead.

Charles


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