  PATRIOT PLAGIARISM? AGAIN!? Mister Cranky, meet the East Bay Express. urlLink Kevin Deenihan of Cal Stuff has the scoop, from an article in the urlLink EAST BAY EXPRESS .
I shall now excerpt some of WILL HARPER's article, noting rather explicitly and honestly that the following words are written by WILL HARPER of the EAST BAY EXPRESS: ...the current issue of the California Patriot, a right-wing campus magazine produced by UC Berkeley students, contains a story on wacky Berkeley landmarks suspiciously similar to an Express cover story written by yours truly a few months ago on wacky Berkeley landmarks. It's not so blatant as the Riders rip-off -- more of a lazy rewrite than a cut-and-paste job -- but some passages and quotes from the Patriot article are identical to those that appeared in the original. Hell, the writer even lifted inaccuracies the Express later corrected in print. Two people quoted in the Patriot version -- who seemed, oddly enough, to have used precisely the same words as when they spoke with the Express months earlier -- told Bottom Feeder they have never talked to the Patriot writer, Vanessa Wiseman, or anyone from the student magazine. For just a minute there, Feeder thought Wiseman had at least managed to do one original interview -- with Berkeley Planning Commissioner John Curl -- until another Expresso recognized his quotes as coming from a letter we ran complaining about the original story. But there's a silver lining here: This whole episode helps us better understand the pillars of the Patriot's mission statement, which are to Expose, Educate, and Express. We hope that our exposure of this intellectual theft from the Express has served to help educate future members of our sordid vocation.
(italics WILL HARPER's) The Patriot has run a urlLink correction . Kevin thinks it's pretty lame, and that she simply stole the stuff and "wrote a hack article" (Though technically, with a wide enough net, you could call it an "editing error". How Clintonesque of them!). I'm inclined to agree, but just so you can make up your own mind, here's their correction, written by them, THE CALIFORNIA PATRIOT: CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, the article "Landmark Decisions that Shape Berkeley's Future" failed to attribute several quotations to the Eastbay Express, from which they were taken.
The quotations of Mary Hanna,Mary Ann Beach Harrell, John Curl, and Leslie Emington were published by the Eastbay Express. The California Patriot regrets the error. A corrected version of the story appears below. Okay, have a wonderful night everybody, and good luck on whatever finals you have left. 
