This is just intellectual laziness - at least take the time to restate the idea in your own words (or better yet, attribute the source) instead of trying to make it look like the idea sprang fully-formed from your own mind... It's bad enough when it happens in high school or college papers, but this was a bestseller that she made a lot of money from.
From the article:
"Conservative author and television personality Monica Crowley, whom Donald Trump has tapped for a top national security communications role, plagiarized large sections of her 2012 book, a CNN KFile review has found.
The review of Crowley’s June 2012 book, "What The (Bleep) Just Happened," found upwards of 50 examples of plagiarism from numerous sources, including the copying with minor changes of news articles, other columnists, think tanks, and Wikipedia. The New York Times bestseller, published by the HarperCollins imprint Broadside Books, contains no notes or bibliography."
The article concludes with a LONG list of side-by-side comparisons between the book and the original sources. I would take exception to a couple of them as being too nit-picky, but most are clear cut and paste with little if any changes to the original source.
http://tinyurl.com/jsskmd5
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