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...course, everyone is allowed to make a small mistake now and then. The most troubling thing about this, then, is that neither Krugman nor the Times have run a correction or issued an apology, though they have had ample time and occasion...
...Krugman: “Last week The Economist quoted an American diplomat who warned that if Mexico didn’t vote for a U.S. resolution it could ‘stir up feelings’ against Mexicans in the United States. He compared the situation to that of Japanese-Americans who were interned after 1941, and wondered whether Mexico ‘wants to stir the fires of jingoism during...
Something is wrong here. Krugman does attribute the direct quotations from the diplomat to The Economist, but he describes the quotations’ contexts—particularly in the second sentence—as though it is his voice and not The Economist’s. In doing so, he passes off entire sequences of words (e.g. “...compared the situation to that of Japanese-Americans who were interned after 1941, and wondered whether Mexico...”) written by The Economist...
...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...
...Does Krugman concede that there is a problem with what he did? And if not, does he employ such citing practices regularly? The absence of any public acknowledgment of culpability in this particular instance leads me to wonder. Moreover, if even the great Paul Krugman, of the great New York Times, employs marginal citing practices, there seems good reason to fear, as Rutton suggests, that there is a widespread problem afoot in the profession...