Journo prof from Rand Paul’s alma matter would flunk him for “unambiguous plagiarism”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) thinks the media doth protest too much, and if he were a journalism professor he would flunk the media for reporting on several instances of apparent plagiarism found in speeches and text by the Kentucky Republican. A journalism professor at Baylor University, Paul’s alma mater, didn’t quite see it that way.
“Having now read both the provided texts of the speeches and columns of Sen. Paul in question, as well as the original materials, I believe that Sen. Paul’s comment ‘if I were their journalism teacher in college, I would fail them’ is inappropriate and misguided,” Robert Darden, associate professor at Baylor University’s Journalism, Public Relations and New Media school in Texas, told TPM.
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“It appears that the Senator from Kentucky is choosing to attack the messenger rather than specifically address what appears to be an unambiguous case of plagiarism,” he said in an email. “Had one of my Journalism students made the same mistakes, I would fail them for each individual assignment and refer the case to the appropriate university office that deals with honor code violations.”
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