this whole harpers/roiphe controversy is exposing all kinds of problems in contemporary journalism. i'm reading @nymtwit's @thedailybeast piece jan 12 piece and she just straight up copy and pasted (in red) @aliceblloyd's exact wording in a Jan 11 piece in the @weeklystandard. 
actually the whole paragraph is lifted
this is actually incredible. had to step away and returned to the article to see another graph lifted entirely word for word. am i missing something? does the @thedailybeast have a content licensing deal with the @weeklystandard? 
this graph too--this is bold! i hope @aliceblloyd is getting a paycheck twice. 
the entirety of the rest of the @weeklystandard piece is lifted after that. it takes time to write things. and to think up your own turns of phrase/construct an argument.
This is not how the game is supposed to go.
Hypothesis: @nymtwit felt free to copy @aliceblloyd bc she could safely assume few readers look across ideological lines, a @thedailybeast reader is unlikely to check the @weeklystandard. All stay hunkered down, but the irony is that the same exact piece can work in either venue!
People should read across the ideological spectrum.
