Although I think the general argument Jill Abramson sets forth in her book, as compressed in yesterday's entry, is valuable and perhaps in the end sound, I have to include here the unhappy truth that Abramson is an unfortunate bearer of that message. Her book, Merchants of Truth, contains some glaring instances of plagiarism. This comes especially in the section of the book devoted to the news website Vice News , seen by some (by not by JA) as a wave-of-the-future institution. Back in the late spring of 2005, the Ryerson Review of Journalism carried a piece by Nicolle Weeks, headlined "Bigot or Champion of Truth?" Weeks argued that Vice is much more the former than the latter. She says this, about the website's co-founder Gavin McInnes: In August 2003, McInnes wrote a column in The American Conservative , a magazine run by Pat Buchanan. In the magazine, he called young people a bunch of knee-jerk liberals (a phrase McInnes and his cronies use often) who...