Known in journalistic circles for his summaries of media-related stories around the country, Mr. Romenesko was faulted in a blog post at the site that carries his name for exhibiting "a pattern of incomplete attribution".
For example, in his summary of the Delphi report, Facione states: Although the identification and analysis of critical thinking skills transcend, in significant ways, specific subjects or disciplines, learning and applying these skills in many contexts requires domain-specific knowledge.
But on the next day his supporters' ire was reignited when the government announced his summary dismissal for allegedly failing to carry out his duties as mayor.
Sure enough, Mitt Romney on Thursday delivered an ode to free enterprise that had the lifting rhetoric and memorable barbs aimed at President Obama that suggested a preview of a convention speech — his summary case for replacing a likable president at a time of widespread economic malaise.
Clarkson visited British ports to collect facts for his pamphlet "A Summary View of the Slave Trade and of the Probable Consequences of Its Abolition" (1787).
Jeremy Peters of the New York Times labeled the entire matter "bizarre," and observed that Romenesko was called to task for "his failure to use quotation marks when summarizing articles" even though he "never claimed credit for [those summaries] as his original work".
In Suriname, the trial is about to begin of ex-dictator Desi Bouterse, for his role in the summary execution of 15 political opponents in 1982.
For instance, when asked for his views and a summary of discussions he had about whether the United States would bomb Afghanistan during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins in mid-November, he would not confirm even that he had had such discussions, and referred the question to the president of Pakistan and other heads of state.
The Wicker Man had not, at the time, reached cult classic status – it was the 1980 Australian film Breaker Morant, in which Woodward played the title role as the drover, horseman, poet and soldier sentenced to death for his part in the summary execution of several Boer prisoners and a German missionary, which first brought him to international attention.
