Chris Hedges extra

“I stand by my body of work,” Hedges told Gawker when asked in an email about several of the instances of borrowing documented below. “I do not plagiarize. I never have and never would. That’s basic professionalism.”

Could somebody please lock this guy in a room with Ed Wegman, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Laurence Tribe, Matthew Whitaker, etc etc etc?

On some level, you gotta admire the guy’s chutzpah, but Hedges and his pals should also realize that by denying in this way, they’re undercutting their alternative defense that plagiarism is really no big deal (an argument that I disagree with, for reasons discussed here).

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