Independent writer admits inserting citations not copied from the original interviews

A high-profile interviewees and columnist was with the Independents in the center of a plagiarism row and Twitter storm on Tuesday, he said that he quotes inserted in interviews he had conducted that were taken out of the subject 's writings and not from the original interview itself.

Johann Hari, who has written for the newspaper in the past ten years, said in a blog post "interview etiquette" late Monday night that he quotes written inserted when "I 've interviewed writer" from their other published with the title work, if they 've put' an idea or feeling "more" in clear speech than in the ".

The Orwell award-winning writer, a growing number of bloggers who accused him in the last days of plagiarism had responded, starting with the deterritorial support Grouppppp (DSG), which resulted in a 2004 interview of Hari with Italian Marxist Antonio Negri, in comparison with a Negri on Negri's 2003 book, written by Anne Dufourmantelle.

Hari wrote that he was "a bit puzzled to find a blogger considers these 'plagiarism' 'and most of his interviews described as" intellectual portraits ". He said that "to do after what must have more than 50 interviews, none of my interlocutors have always said that she had been misquoted" and adding that he at other unnamed newspaper called interviewer 'and she said, what I did, a common practice "was.

His remarks, though, led to a flood of mostly hostile comic tweets, and the Hashtag "# interviewsbyhari" third place until Tuesday noon in the worldwide trend categories on Twitter. Meanwhile, other bloggers went to find other examples of alleged plagiarism.

Hari \ s personal blog 's response to the allegations on the writer \ done ", rather than independent on a Web site has since Hari does not respond to a phone call, e-mail and tweet comment studied in relation to his interview technique -. And yet the newspaper has yet responded to the accusations and increasing Internet controversy.

Titled Hari Kari / hack the original post on 17 DSG Written in June, citing a quote Negri Hari was the subject of memory in the 2004 interview. "Whoever controls memory? Think Given the weight of memory, you have unreasonably be! Reason amounts to eternal Cartesianism. The best part is" to "think" new ". Memory prevents revolt, rejection, invention, revolution. "

The DSG-blog (the author has chosen not to divulge his or her identity) is based on a passage from pages 100 and 101 of Dufourmantelle book written a year earlier to quote. This passage uses almost identical to the quoted interview, beginning "Whoever controls memory? Given the weight of memory, one must be irrational! Reason amounts to eternal Cartesianism".

The book then has half an extra sentence: "As against Descartes, one ought to chose Galileo instead" before continuing with almost identical language as appeared in the 2004 interview by Hari. "The most beautiful thing is to think 'against', to think 'new'. Often, memory prevents revolt, rejection, invention, revolution."

This was done by Brian Whelan, another blogger, who elected to examine other Hari interviews, which he followed as "a fundamental review of plagiarism '. He compared a 2010 interview with Hari controversial Israeli journalist Gideon Levy writings of Levy in Haaretz, the newspaper for which he works. Whelan took a job in the September 2010 Interview of the Year, which seemed to be composed of sentences in a column written by Levy was released in March.

Whelan cites this passage from Hari 's interview: \. "After that, he falls silent, and we stare at each other for a while, then he says, in a quieter voice:". The facts are clear Israel has no real intention of leaving the territories and permit the Palestinian people to exercise their rights. No change will come into the smug, condescending, aggressive, and continue to give Israel today. This is the time to familiarize yourself with a rehabilitation program for Israel. '\'

The same quotations that appear interspersed with other observations in the following two paragraphs from a piece of Levy in Haaretz on 18 Written in March 2010. "The facts are clear: .. Israel has no real intention to withdraw from the territories and permit the Palestinian people to exercise their rights, Israel is not really intended to pursue peace, because life here seems to be, even without it The good continuation of the occupation doesn 't only endanger Israel' s future, it also represents the greatest threat to world peace, which is a pretext for Israel 's most dangerous enemies.

"No change will come into the smug, belligerent and pass condescending Israel today. That 's why these difficult and thankless task fell on the shoulders of an ally, because only they started the power of doing things. No agreement come from another endless series of futile diplomatic trips or want peace, no one wants to keep. We have often tried in the past, and all for naught. This is the time to familiarize yourself with a rehabilitation program for Israel. The whole world, and eventually Israel will welcome Barack Obama, if he is successful. "

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