I got a new comment in my guestbook today. It says,
Hello. I’m writing this because months ago you were one of the first to call out Philippine Star, specifically Mayenne Carmona, for plagiarizing. Well, looks like the great newspaper has done it again- plagiarizing a CD review of Metallica’s new album from Rolling Stone.
I checked the related articles. Oh well, Philippine Star’s version seemed a copycat.
For those who have been following my post on plagiarism in Philippine Star, I got a copy of Mayenne Carmona’s apology that appeared in her column last weekend. Big thanks to Bette, one of the readers of this blog, for sending these to my email this afternoon.
Here’s the apology verbatim:
I would like to apologize to my readers for my article last week, “Whom Not to Marry”. The wisdom of Fr. Pat Connor was not from a personal interview I had with him. In as much as I put his teachings in quotations, it was an oversight on my part not to have written that the source of his quotations and other parts of my article were from the column of Maureen Dowd, July 6, in The New York Times. — Mayenne Carmona
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Was that indicative plagiarism?
Last week I wrote about the indicative plagiarism that happened in Philippine Star. Afterwhich, I sent an email to the editor and provided the link to the original article in New York Times, for them to compare the obvious ‘copying’ made by one of their writers, Mayenne Carmona. Till date, the editor never responded through an email. However, as I was checking the online version of the related article since then, I am relieved that it was already taken out/deleted since last week.
I don’t mind not being responded by the editor. But the mere fact that they deleted the article was more than an acknowledgment of their shortcomings (rather than saying a big fault by the editor, the writers are presumably writing in good faith) and irresponsible writing.
Until yesterday, I got a comment from Bette, one of the readers of this blog. She wrote,
because of this post, inabangan ko tuloy if she will say something. aba! last sunday, she wrote a very short apology in her column. you might want to check it out.
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