Remember Ralph Nader? Talk about "dirty tricks"!
I think it was the auto industry that had him followed, trying to get
something to use against him. They even had him approached by women,
hoping to get him in compromising situations.
It's insulting when you think about it. The corporations hold most of
us in such contempt that they simply spread rumors and trash talk,
instead of discussing the real issues.
Remember the many Labor Union Leaders who were accused of being
Commies or Red Sympathizers?
And the sad thing is, we are so easily duped.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/12/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is what I found on Wikipedia.
In 2003, University of Texas classics professor Thomas Palaima wrote an
article for the Austin-American Statesman accusing Hedges of plagiarizing
Ernest Hemingway in Hedge's 2002 book War Is a Force That Gives Us
Meaning.[61] Palaima said that Hedges had corrected a passage in his first
edition of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning that was close to
Hemingway,
and he should have cited the paraphrase in all subsequent editions. Hedges'
publisher at the time, PublicAffairs, said it did not believe the passage
needed to be cited to Hemingway. The New Republic said that Palaima's
allegation had resulted in the passage being reworded. But, after posting
the article online, the magazine posted a correction box that read:
"In the original version of this article, The New Republic indicated that
PublicAffairs changed the text of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning only
after having been alerted by Thomas [Palaima] to the presence of
plagiarism.
In fact, the wording had been changed months earlier, and an edition with
the present language existed at the time of Palaima's e-mail to
PublicAffairs. However, there was still no attribution to Hemingway in the
new version, despite the obvious similarities in ideas and
formulation".[62]
In June 2014, Christopher Ketcham accused Hedges of plagiarism in an
article
published in The New Republic.[62][63][64] Ketcham claims that Hedges
plagiarized many writers over his career, including Matt Katz, Naomi Klein,
Neil Postman, Ernest Hemingway, along with Ketcham's wife: Petra
Bartosiewicz.[62][65] Hedges, his editors at Truthdig, and his publisher
Nation Books denied the claims made by Ketcham.[62] In a response first
published by The Real News on June 16, 2014, Hedges noted that Ketcham
based
his allegations on an unpublished manuscript which the latter man admitted
he had never seen and passages that were actually footnoted or sourced.
Hedges accused Ketcham and The New Republic (TNR) of malicious intent and
character assassination.[66] On the following day (June 17), The New
Republic republished Hedges' response along with Ketcham's (and TNR's)
response to the counter-allegations made by Hedges.[67]
The Washington Free Beacon reported The New York Times spokesman saying
that
it "did not have reason to believe Hedges plagiarized in his work for the
paper" and had no plans to investigate Hedges for plagiarism. The American
Prospect and Salon declined to publish Ketcham's article, and The Nation
Institute and Truthdig issued statements dismissing Ketcham's
allegations.[62][66][68]
