Crimson Plagiarized, Karmic Balance Restored
What goes around goes around goes around comes all the way back around. --JT
When Justin brought sexy back [Ed.: Thanks, btw], who could have known that he was describing the Harvard Crimson's Circle of Plagiarism? Stung by "borrowers" Victoria Ilyinsky and Kathleen Breeden in October, the Cambridge broadsheet now finds itself on the catching end of fake writing. The copy-and-paste karma comes in the form of the Michigan Daily's Devika Daga. One of apparently four articles the Ann Arbor music writer ganked -- a 2006 review of a French Kicks concert -- bears an uncanny similarity to a 2003 Crimson piece by new Gawker Weekend editor Leon Neyfakh. Read the latter:
The French Kicks are nobodies.
You've probably never heard of them, and neither has America. They've been mentioned in passing in the same breath as the Strokes and the Libertines-occasionally. Pillars of the rock renaissance-kind of. An exciting new band-if you're into that scene-raising hairs and eyebrows and taking the country by storm-if they can get away with it.
And here's the Michigan Daily's homage:
You've probably never heard of the French Kicks, and neither has America. They've occasionally been mentioned in passing in the same breath as The Strokes and The Libertines. They're pillars of the rock renaissance - kind of. They're quite an exciting indie band, if you're into that scene, raising hairs and eyebrows and taking the country by storm - if they can get away with it.
Sweet cosmic chi no doubt, but all this plagiarism is getting tiresome. Can't we get some more original scandals up in this piece? In the meantime, let's not forget the real victims here. First the French Kicks get panned by the Crimson in '03. Now they get re-panned just because the Mich reviewer couldn't come up with a new word for "blows"?
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February 22nd, 2007 at 4:31 pm
“I dont have to turn it around
Cause what goes around comes back around”
—Kells
http://www.lyricstime.com/r-kelly-trapped-in-the-closet-chapter-5-of-5-lyrics.html
February 22nd, 2007 at 7:32 pm
If the “College Publisher” network ever get their hands on The D, I’ll take ‘em out. Their layout sucks even more than IvyGates!
February 22nd, 2007 at 7:35 pm
IvyGate’s.
February 23rd, 2007 at 4:54 am
but weren’t the crimson plagiarizers the ones who were restoring karmic balance? how soon we have forgotten you, kaavya.