[UA] Is God A Carp?

[Joe Littrell]

At 06:00 PM 3/16/2003 -0600, Greg Stolze wrote:
> >And even if the NYT would want to slant it a certain way, why would the
> >Forward - http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.03.14/news15.html -  have
> >the same slant?
>
>Well Joe, when a reporter loves a story very much, he (or she) takes the
>most interesting parts of the story and copies them without attribution.
>What comes out, is called 'plagiarism'.  It's all part of the miracle of
>news.  Beautiful, in its way.

Oh, you got me there, you rascal, you. Anyway, I like the picture that goes 
with the Yiddish version of the story better than the NYT one - 
http://yiddish.forward.com/031403/story7.html

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