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Fired reporter unclear on the 'plagiarism' concept
Posted on August 30, 2006 12:00 AM
I'm getting the feeling Utah is going to be for us what Florida is for Fark.Shinika Sykes filed a story with Utah's largest newspaper, the Salt Lake Tribune, that was just a little too close to something in a University of Utah paper, The Daily Utah Chronicle. Sykes put up a defense but earned a well-deserved pink slip for her actions...
"I talked to everybody in that story, and that's what I told them. There's nothing untrue in that story. There's nothing false in that story, and I talked to everyone," said Sykes, who started at The Tribune in February 1993.Ok, nothing false in that story, she says, as if it would be surprising if it was. Ya see, when a reporter plagiarizes a story, well, that means she copied it. So yeah, there's nothing false because the frigging original story wasn't false either!
One last note – Sykes was a reporter on the higher education beat. Maybe she learned those copying skills in college. Wouldn't it be cool if she actually attended U of Utah too?
Tags: Fired, Utah, Nothing false in that story