Loganed and Littericked

This is not a good look for the Maxim Institute's Bruce Logan. Particularly after his daughter has been fired from the Press for the same reason. Writing columns and articles that include other people's work. Its called plagarism.

I uderstand Mr Logan will be releasing a statement regarding this on the Maxim website first thing tomorrow. I see also that Mr Tips has put Paul Litterick from the Fundy Post through the wringer of copyscape to see if he can identify plagarism in Litterick's Fundy Posts.

But although Mr Litterick hasn't uplifted whole paragraphs from other articles, and has generally attributed, he has
slipped up a bit hereas you can see from this article which Mr Liiterick lifts not just one sentence, but four.

And in Fundy Post issue 15 Litterick comments on lesbian Christian author Tammy Bruce, who recently visited New Zealand. He approves of lesbianism but not Christianity and so he is quite fascinated by her. Unlike this writer, he has never met or spoken with Bruce. He says Tammy Bruce:

is also the author of The Death of Right and Wrong, in which she "takes you inside the chilling world of the Left - a place where morals and decency have been turned on their heads and the crisp definition between Right & Wrong has been blurred into a mushy, grey mess." Apparently, "in this world, the Gay Elite exploit our children - under the guise of tolerance and education - to satisfy their sexual obssessions...the Black Elite laud convicted murderers as community heroes and award-winning "artists"...the Feminist Elite..." According to Ian Wishart's well-adjusted magazine, Investigate, Tammy Bruce believes there is "a deliberate desire to spread AIDS wider into the community and, perversely increase the virgin power of the gay lobby

You would think that the last sentence of Litterick's well adjusted article referred to Investigate Magazine, but no, the whole thing was pinched from a book review on the Investigate website, Here's the bit that was quoted, but not attributed. He says Tammy Bruce

takes you inside the chilling world of the Left - a place where morals and decency have been turned on their heads and the crisp definition between Right & Wrong has been blurred into a mushy, gray mess. In this world, the Gay Elite exploit our children - under the guise of tolerance and education - to satisfy their sexual obssessions. The Black Elite laud convicted murderers as community heroes and award-winning "artists". In this world, the Feminist Elite fawn over a woman who mercilessly killed all five of her children."

I thought Mr Litterick was pretty hot on attribution. Perhaps not. I'm sure there's more examples of this sort of carry on, but I haven't got as much time as Litterick. I have a day job.
UPDATE The Herald has done a story on Logan's attribution.Now will they do one on the Fundy Post.

update 2 Logan has released a statement. It includes this sentence:" This has not, however, been done with any deliberate attempt to misquote or mislead. The work I am engaged in is debating and promoting ideas and in this I freely acknowledge I owe much to the work of others"

At least Logan tries to debate and promote ideas rather than take the piss out of all and sundry like Litterick spends a lot of time and energy doing.