WhIle some might call it plagiarism others, like
BeachGrit, regard the "cut-and-paste" technique as the sharpest
tool a writer has in his belt.
Yesterday, the fearless, tireless, and wildly
inspirational Harvard president Claudine Gay was forced to
resign after a witch hunt headed by “racist mobs.”
It seems the racists, the dang Jews and the white supremacists
wanting to slaughter the sacred DEI calf went after Claudine Gay,
the first black president of Harvard, when she was wishy-washy on
whether or not calling for the mass-killing of Jews by students
would violate the school’s conduct policy.
Claudine Gay had told a Congressional hearing that talk of
Jew-killin’, well, it wasn’t automatically bad. It
depended, she said, on the context.
The subsequent calls for her
resignation were, said the Rev. Al Sharpton, “an attack on every
Black woman in this country who’s put a crack in the glass
ceiling”. It was an “assault on the health, strength, and future of
diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
“Racist mobs won’t stop until they topple all Black people from
positions of power and influence who are not reinforcing the
structure of racism,” award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi, who used
to be plain ol Henry Rogers, wrote in his typically flamboyant
style.
And, so, when it was revealed Claudine Gay was an active user of
cut and paste in her work, oowee, the pile-on began.
The screws got real tight until finally Gay quit and she was given a less
prestigious role within the university, although she did get to
keep her 900k salary.
But while some might call Claudine Gay a plagiarist others,
like BeachGrit, regard the
technique as the sharpest tool a writer has in his belt. It is a
labour-saving device where the writer (or keyboard operator) is
able to process material and get it published long before any
cube-worker gets around to crafting his own version.
BeachGrit, of course, is the pioneer of this labour-lite version
of journalism, cleverly transferring acres of text from other
sources into our own stories.
It ain’t as easy as it sounds.
First, the operator must use his mouse pad to bold the text he
wishes to steal.
Then, he must hold down the command button, which is identified
by the looped square symbol, and depress the c button. This copies
the selected text.
Finally, this text, which is stored somewhere in the computer’s
memory, is transported to a new page and, here, the operator holds
down the looped square button and the v button.
Only now do we have our presto moment as the text magically
reappears.
Sharp-eyed readers and those with a few neurons still firing
will often get that deja vu jolt as they scroll through a BeachGrit
story, entire passages, sometimes entire stories, recreated using
the magic of the cut and paste combination of buttons.
Of course, it ain’t easy being in the cut-and-paste surf
aggregating biz as writers for Surfer magazine have found to their
peril, shocking readers with multiple missteps and grievous
errors.
Following the purchase of Surfer by The Arena Group, a
“tech-powered media company…that creates robust digital
destinations that delight consumers with powerful journalism” a
series of unforgivable errors have turned the once best and oldest
surf mag in the world into a “bastion of kook.”
Vale Claudine Gay.