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A columnist's paragraph and one that belonged to another, unattributed source?
"Moviemakers see him as a new Zac Efron and think he would be a perfect casting for a movie musical," an unattributed source told the Sun.
Unattributed Source Watch: Two especially tasty descriptions of why people are allowed to speak anonymously in the pages of The Times showed up recently.
Unattributed Source Watch: Last Sunday, in "Scenarios: What if They Lose?," Adam Nagourney wrote that Howard Dean "is said to have told associates that he believes an antiwar candidate would have fared better against Mr. Bush".
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But let's imagine for a moment that Figes isn't just a foolish man whose sense of proportion and decency got lost in a research trip to the interminable steppe and give him the benefit of that imagined doubt: perhaps he was trying to teach the internet a valuable historiographical lesson about the limited value of unattributed sources.
However, Deresiewicz's macrocosmic generalizations lack evidence--almost all of his student comments are unattributed sources and his indictment of the "meritocracy" is reductive.
Murray countered that DeVos had failed to answer critical questions about her finances, and that many of DeVos's responses appeared to be "cut and pasted from previous statements," an apparent reference to sentences and phrases that DeVos appeared to use unattributed from other sources — including a top Obama administration civil rights official.
Over on stage right, the action centers on Unattributed Republican Source inflating a balloon labeled "Plan B" (Republicans have no sense of irony, as evidenced by naming their current plan after a medical pill they fought like wolverines against).
For one thing, it is impossible much of the time to figure out how the authors have obtained their information; many of the quotations are unattributed, culled from other sources and treated as definitive, or taken out of context entirely.
The Taylor Fairness Award judges praised the Star-Ledger stories and photographs for being "exceedingly fair to the students involved, to their teachers and administrators, the educational system, the families and society in a portrayal that was fully dimensional". The judges especially noted that none of the stories used unnamed sources or unattributed information.
Further, surviving scripts of films she was associated with are often unattributed, with no author(s) name(s) indicated on the typescripts.
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