Intern Fired For Lifting From NYT

This is just….stupid.

Announcement: Do not plagiarize if you want to keep your job. In the age of Google, you’re stupid to think you won’t be caught. Chris Anderson was caught in like three seconds.

So now Hailey Mac Arthur, a summer intern at the Colorado Springs Gazette, has gotten caught publishing “passages that are substantially similar, and in some cases identical, to passages in news stories originally published by The New York Times.”

You can see the comparable passages here,

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