“Drawn substantially”, everybody

Lo so che è facile, ma non si può non pensare – leggendo questa “Correction” sull’Economist di questa settimana – a quante pagine dei giornali italiani sarebbero affollate di testi simili se volessero seguire gli stessi criteri:

“Our article on Ugandan guards working in Iraq, written for us by a freelance journalist in Uganda, was drawn substantially from an article published previously in Uganda’s Daily Monitor and written by David Herbert. We were, of course, unaware of this. We apologise to Mr Herbert, the Daily Monitor and our readers”

Economist