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...Paul Krugman’s recent column in the March 7, 2003 edition of The New York Times, “Let Them Hate as Long as They Fear,” I was immediately intrigued—being a classics concentrator—by the classical reference in its title. Early in the column, Krugman correctly notes that this quotation was supposedly “a favorite of the emperor Caligula.” It would have been nice, though, if Krugman had also given proper credit to the source of a contemporary passage that he uses later...
...Krugman handed in this column to a section of Expository Writing 20—or indeed any other class—this would likely have landed him a trip to the Administrative Board. In “Writing with Sources,” the Expository Writing Program’s guide on when and how to cite in academic papers, it says, “Words you take verbatim from another person also need to be put in quotation marks, even if you take only two or three words; it’s not enough simply to cite...
Fair enough. But even so, this case is especially unsettling because it occurs in an editorial column, and not merely in a piece of pure reportage. In editorial writing, which purports to reflect the opinions of its author, it is clearly much more important than in news writing to be clear about whose thoughts and whose words one is borrowing...
There is an irony in all of this, which Rutton touches upon in his column. After citing some questionable citations in a book by two journalists about Mohammed Atta, Rutton notes that “the net effect of the similar quotes and paraphrases raises many of the same questions that so damaged the reputation of historian Doris Kearns Goodwin earlier this year...
Zachary S. Podolsky ’04 is a classics concentrator in Currier House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...