By Oscar Corral
The Miami HeraldPublished: 2/02/06
Excerpt:
Anti-Castro radio commentator Armando Pérez-Roura doesn't subscribe to the left-of-center views of Cuban dissident Oscar Espinosa Chepe.
But Espinosa thinks that didn't stop Pérez-Roura from plagiarizing one
of his articles.
According to a letter Espinosa wrote from Havana, Pérez-Roura copied
most of a column he wrote in September word-for-word from one Espinosa
wrote four days earlier...
A journalism ethics specialist at the Poynter Institute in St.
Petersburg said plagiarism is troubling. ''That is a very serious
ethical violation, the kind in most newsrooms that would merit a firing
or a serious level of discipline,'' said Kelly McBride, ethics group
leader at Poynter.
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