Plagiarism is an easy escape to completing an assignment. We’ve all seen it, witnessed how easy it is to do it, and heard of people being caught for the crime. Journalists have to do so much research and interviews that the time put into an article takes a lot out of them. Plagiarizing someone’s work would be an easy way out and would give the writer credibility if the actual author’s work is well written. I remember when the Boston Herald ran a story by writer Ron Borges that turned out to be plagiarized, which led to his firing and every time I see him on television for a sports show I think of the crime and how I don’t want to become that person to do that to make a deadline. Another thing journalists do is make up stories. Websites such as TMZ and magazines like the National Enquirer and People make up stories to fuel their readers to keep interest. If you make up a story it is a better alternative rather than not make a deadline at all then. It also is, I feel this way at least, better than copying someone’s work because it least you put in the effort to make up this story on your own. Plagiarism and making up stories are both bad crimes to commit in journalism, but plagiarism is a far worse crime because I could never live with copying someone’s entire work and say it was mine and be able to sleep that night.
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