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Margaret Wente affair: A timeline of plagiarism allegations
A look at some of the notable tweets punctuating the allegations of plagiarism levelled at Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente over the past week, as well as the Globe's response. This is a timeline of what happened.
- Tuesday, Sept. 18: Blogger Carol Waino of Media Culpa publishes an analysis of Globe and Mail writer Margaret Wente's alleged transgressions, complete with quotations illustrating unattributed material in one of her columns from 2009.
- Media culpa: Margaret Wente: 'a zero for plagiarism'?So after what's been dubbed American journalism's "summer of sin" , maybe it's time to ask: Should Ms. Wente herself - one of Canada's be...
Margaret Wente: a zero for plagiarism? tinyurl.com/997xe7n #cdnmedia #cdnpoli #plagiarism @Poynter @jackshafer- The Twitterverse immediately takes note.
- Wednesday, Sept. 19: The calls for action surrounding the Wente case grow increasingly louder online.
Is Canadian conservative columnist Margaret Wente a plagiarist? The blog Media Culpa makes a compelling case. bit.ly/Prt8ul
Ohmygodohmygod this: every overworked journalist's worst nightmare. Although...I feel like Ms. Wente is not overworked? mediaculpapost.blogspot.com/2012/09/margar…- Thursday, Sept. 20: The Globe's silence seems ever louder to those waiting for a response to the Media Culpa allegations.
Media Culpa blog raises questions of plagiarism shar.es/u8huQ Not going away, Globe and Mail. You have to address it this time.- Friday, Sept. 21: Public Editor Sylvia Stead addresses the matter in a blog post, in which she defends Wente and refers to Waino as an "anonymous blogger."
"It is very difficult to be more definitive because we are talking about a column written three years and two months ago. This from a columnist who writes three times a week. The concern was that seven different sources were reproduced. That seems highly unlikely." 
Public editor: We investigate all complaints against our writersThis week, an anonymous blogger raised the possibility that a high-profile columnist used phrases or sentences similar to others' work an...- Waino responds in kind with a blog post of her own, noting that Stead is entirely aware of her identity because they have previously had contact about Wente's work.
- Media culpa: Response to The Globe and MailThis is in response to an by the Globe and Mail's Public Editor, in regard to a recent here asking whether the attribution practices of M...
- Sunday, Sept. 23: John Miller, former chair of Ryerson University's journalism school, publishes a comprehensive blog post on "Wentegate" and concludes that Public Editor Sylvia Stead must resign.
Public Editor Sylvia Stead of @GlobeAndMail won't respond re: #Wente plagiarism on Sat or Sun!! John Miller exposes - thejournalismdoctor.ca/Blog.php/wente…- Colby Cosh of Macleans publishes his own treatise on the affair.
Globe and Mail, or Cut and Paste?In January, the Globe and Mail appointed longtime editor and correspondent Sylvia Stead its first "public editor". What say we pause righ...- Monday, Sept. 24: In an email to John Miller, Globe Public Editor Sylvia Stead criticizes him for not waiting for her comment before publishes. She goes on to tell him she does not check her email on weekend and criticizes his lack of commitment to "responsible journalism." Miller publishes those comments on his blog.
WOW: Sylvia Stead calls John Miller a poor journalist bc he wrote abt her Wente column before she finished her wknd bit.ly/UubfQ6- @colbycosh I still can't believe that exists. I don't work weekends?! You do when you're dealing with a MASSIVE EMERGENCY.
OpenFile HalifaxCarol Waino or Wainio? 2012-09-26T12:58:44.700Z
