Plagiarism: Is there a Malaysian benchmark?
I referred my question to Oon Yeoh in his capacity as a practitioner in new media and mainstream media, as a writer for local and international titles.
Statting that plagiarism is plagiarism, he asked why didn't Brendan Pereira copied Thomas Friedman?
The copycat issue is debated on two instalments on our 3-minute podcast at www.KLstream.com, here and here.
Comments
Folks
Thomas Friedman is the wrong person to copy. He may not be plagiarist but his columns are based on a conflict of interest.
Oon Yeoh hero worships Thomas Friedman. I don't.
He is an Arab and Palestinian basher. As an American Jew, he had said in many words in interviews and in his columns, he feels he is more Israeli than an American.
He is one of those who urged on the Bush Administration to attack Iraq in 2002 and early 2003. He is a closeted NeoCon.
He champions globalisation because he is a multimillionare himself with vast corporate interest internationally through his wife and other business partners.
It has come out into the open that his championing of globalisation is based on conflictt of interest and he used the columns in New York Times for that purpose.
Read here about his conflict of interest:http://www.workingforchange.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=C0EB620B-E0C3-F084-DFE28A740D37E6E2
He is the most biased columnist on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If you read his columns on the middle east, you may end up as anti arab or anti palestinian. And he balances his words with some pathetic motherhood statements about humanitarian support to Palestinians. He loves people like Benyamin Netanyahu.
Wrong person to copy from.
I stopped reading his prejudiced, biased and conflict of interest columns long ago.
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November 8, 2006 10:34 AM