Tuesday 3 May 2011

Men's Health editor proves it's not plagiarism when you're the boss.

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Whenever I want the best in writing, I turn to fitness magazines. You've never heard an eloquent turn-of-phrase quite like when it refers to shredded six-pack abs.



It seems Men's Health's editor David Zinczenko enjoys good writing, too, especially if he can pass it off as his own. According to Gawker, Zinczenko writes an online column for Yahoo! Health, and more often than not he simply takes articles published in Men's Health by his own staff writers and publishes them on his Yahoo! Health column.



That is to say, publishes them as his own writing.



We're not talking sly plagiarism here--a thought, a small turn of phrase, a fleeting image. We're talking whole, fleshy, lively chunks of previously published articles by his own staff of writers and placing it under his byline on a different website as his own work. Verbatim, too.



Put in perspective: slacking sophomores in college do a better job at rearranging sentences when they plagiarize than David Zinczenko does--and he gets paid a fortune to do it. To add insult to injury, he probably also has shredded abs. Although, knowing Zinczenko at this point, he probably took his abs from someone else, too.

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