In 2008, Jill Abramson, the then-managing editor of the New York Times, had the unfortunate task of responding to accusations that a Times reporter had plagiarized two sentences from a Miami Herald article about the illicit drug ‘paco.’ Save for a few minor differences, the sentences were almost verbatim, and …
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