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New York Press debuted a new sex column yesterday authored by Claudia Lonow who, rather than thinking up her own weird sex question or asking her friends to make one up, copied the questions from a 2006 Dan Savage column. Savage Love is published online in The Onion’s A.V. Club and, according to Wikipedia is “internationally syndicated.”
I guess it makes sense to copy from the best, but I wish more people would pay attention to my top ten tips on how to be a plagiarist. Your career might be longer than a day.
The copying was noticed almost immediately and yesterday the New York Press accepted Claudia Lonow’s resignation. Apparently “she was unaware that using questions from Savage’s column was a breach of journalism ethics. She has offered her resignation, and we’ve accepted it. We apologize to our readers, and to Dan Savage, for this error in judgment. ”
Via SBTB.
I remember her from “Knot’s Landing,” years ago. What a shame.
What a loser. Is it really that tough to think of a weird sex question? Maybe I’m perverted, but a few spring to mind. ;P
LOL, Jan!
I can see running out of ideas after a long, long time, but to not even have a column for the first time out? Yikes. Why sign up for the job if you don’t have the vaguest notion what to write?