Wente’s borrowing habit

Maybe not as serious as other instances of plagiarism (or Wente’s fake, borrowed Occupy protester), but still...

Like last week (and so many times before), here’s Margaret taking a liking to other people’s prose:

Gary Hunt, OilPrice.com, February 12, 2012:

A report from PricewaterhouseCoopers for the National Association of Manufacturers says low-cost domestic natural gas will save $11-billion per year in U.S. manufacturing costs over the next 10 years and create more than a million new jobs.

…Even President Barack Obama is praising the job-creating benefits…

Wente, March 15, 2012:

A new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers for the National Association of Manufacturers says low-cost domestic natural gas will save $11-billion a year in U.S. manufacturing costs and create more than a million new jobs…

…fracking’s biggest fan is Barack Obama.

Margaret (teachers are lazy and soft on plagiarism) Wente:

Back from a nice long vacation, and still phoning it in.

Wente, March 2012: “It is in almost every respect a system built for another age,” writes education historian John Fleming (whose views were cited in The Province newspaper). The union, the government and the school trustees, in his view, are all anti-visionary, anti-technological and completely committed to the status quo.

Here’s her colleague Gary Mason reviewing Fleming’s book in the Globe a few months earlier.

Gary Mason, October, 2011: “It is in almost every respect a system built for another age,” Dr. Fleming writes… the union, the government and the school trustees – are anti-visionary, anti-technological and completely committed to the status quo.

And she recycles her own material from a few weeks ago:

Wente, March 2012: In Ontario during the same period, per pupil funding soared by 56 per cent, to $11,207.

Wente, Feb. 18, 2012: The combination of increased funding and declining enrolment means that per-pupil funding has soared by 56 per cent – from $7,201 to $11,207.

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