By Jill Rosen
American Journalism Review
Published in June/July issue
Excerpt:
Kelly McBride, an ethics expert at the Poynter Insitute, believes the problems are rampant in the industry. In high school and in college, she says, students are plagiarizing and cheating as a matter of course. Why would everything change once these students hit the real world?
McBride recently spoke to a convention of Florida high school journalists. Asking their teachers to leave the room, she asked the kids if they drop chunks of copy from published sources into their reports. Yeah, they told her–and, yeah, they know that’s bad. “They know it’s wrong, but they equate it to speeding rather than drunk driving,” McBride says.
“The problem is that when they do it for a school paper, once they’ve established a habit, it’s hard not to do it in their publication,” she says.
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