February 22, 2008
Bettering
Plagiarism reared its ugly head in last night’s presidential debates (cf also OoN 19xi07). It was charged that if this is to be a campaign of words, then the campaigners should use their own words and not those of another.
As it it turned, it was not only a problem for the debaters. For news of this struck terror in the hearts of presidential speech writers. “If it weren’t for plagiarism, we’d be out of work,” one of their spokespersons told OoN’s Washington stringer. “Out of respect for the office, for the aspirants for the office, and for this especially wordy season for which we give our utmost, we’ve also even abstained from joining our fellow writers’ on strike. You cannot imagine the embarrassment and professional ostracism that this has already caused us. Now comes plagiarism.”
The writers who produce OoN consider themselves compassionate liberals, but that doesn’t mean that they are any less compassionate than compassionate conservatives. As a matter of fact, it means that their compassion is even more worn thin by its considerable, as one might say, liberal largesse. Consequently, they identify deeply with their presidential colleagues. It is precisely for this very reason that they’ve risked their professional associations and memberships by not joining their other fellow writers on strike.
As for plagiarism and OoN’s almost daily essays, our writers create and produce following Milton’s famous aphorism that “plagiarie is borrowing without bettering,” and also that more recent affirmation that borrowing from two or more sources without bettering is simply studious research.
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