OT: David Harns directly calls out Drew Sharp about plagiarized article
For those unfamiliar, Drew Sharp plagiarized an article written by David Harns that was posted to isportsweb.com. The original story written by Harns was about a friendship that developed between Connor Cook and Miranda Shay McCoy (a quadriplegic). Only for context here is Sharp's direct ripoff of the article.
MGoBlog Thread from December 25th, 2015
This first bit sort of sets the tone:
I am, however, not satisfied with how Sharp has handled it. Put bluntly, I did my best to take the high road during this situation, assuming Drew Sharp would join me there eventually. Clearly, he has not.
I didn't want to quote the whole article just highlighted this first bit.
Drew Sharp Owes The Public An Apology
See for yourself or neg away. I thought anything anti-sharp is good.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:57 PM ^
March 29th, 2016 at 12:58 PM ^
Here's the column I should have written about Drew Sharp months ago. Sorry it took so long.https://t.co/wfZszkqh4Y
— David Harns (@isportsDave) March 29, 2016
scandaliscious!
Drew Sharp is such a bag of vinegar and water that I find myself agreeing with a Sparty. Ugh.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:59 PM ^
The more we link to Drew's garbage, the more he keeps winning.
So what you're saying is we should have embraced the media coverage from the Shane Morris concussion ordeal because it expanded the Michigan brand.
I bring this up not to rehash all of that crap (neg me if you want for doing that - I'm fine with it), but to point out how ridiculous this comment is. Drew Sharp should be blasted for plagiarizing another author, and we should spread that article like wildfire out for public consumption until the Freep is forced to let him go. I wish there was a much deeper accountability for media writers than I've seen happen with Drew Sharp, and if anyone has the right to call him out on it then I'd say it's most definitely the original author of the content that was plagairized.
A Couple questions:
Why did 105.1 think it was a good idea to hire the most radioactive personality in Detroit sports media history to go against a highly popular afternoon radio show?
Why is Detroit a wasteland for idiotic sports journalists? We must be the only place in America that would give broke Rob "Cornball Brotha" Parker a hundredth chance in the market.
forget, 105.1 was the second station to do that. Previously, in or around 2010, 1130 The Fan completely ruined a perfectly good Matt Shepard show in the 3:00 PM slot by doing THE EXACT SAME thing with Drew Sharp. It was cancelled in 6 months.
I personally don't think he will completely recover from this issue in conjuction with 105.1 dumping him. He has now negatively affected two fairly popular radio personalities simply by being put next to them. I think people are starting to catch on a little.
Are you referring to Matt Dery? He was horrible. I much preferred Drew Lane over Dery, who always acted like something he wasn't.
Dery's sound effects were crap too
was fine without Sharp. Not great, but fine. He had something of a following. They could have put anybody with him and he would have been a lot better off. Dery and Lindsey Hunter would have been fine. I would have(and often did) listen to that duo over Valenti and Foster but I could not handle Sharp. I think there are a lot of people like me who were searching for an alternative to 97.1 but wanted to punch a wall when they put Sharp on there.
Drew Lane was periodically funny but he only talked about old hockey and baseball players. He was next to clueless regarding current sports topic. Yeah, Harris Polls were great but like it or not it was billed as a sports show and he could not talk sports.
he's going ahead with calling that asshat out. Harns calling Sharp out in his piece for calling out everyone and not doing it to himself was excellent.
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But wait, will not the extra stretching be a violation also???
FUCK the freep and drew sharp.
Someone will have to wake him from his nap.
It's not my job to decide Sharp's fate, but I would've thought plagiarism carried a one strike policy at just about any journalism establishment.
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I'm with you. If it takes a second strike, something tells me that digging through Sharp's past feature articles would provide plenty of material for strike 2.
Where's Section 1 when you need him?
The odds of this story being the one time Sharp borrowed someone else's work is pretty damn low. History suggests that this kind of behavior becomes a slippery slope.
I would've thought plagiarism carried a one strike policy at just about any journalism establishment.
If only the Freep was actually a "journalism establishment".
I sill take solice in the fact that BOTH will soon be out of business/work soon. Working for a newspaper in 2016 is like working for a company that produces VHS video tapes.
Both are dead already and too stupid or lazy to know it.
And they use poor little kids to help increase their paper subscriptions by having them knock on the door and say, "If you pay $20 for the Oklahoman you will help me go to college." I mean I tried even just giving the kid $20 without signing anything, but somehow his mom signed us up for the dang paper anyway!
Then when your short stint is out, they have your phone number and annoy the holy crap out of you by calling from 18 different numbers (all from different area codes) until you decide to either give in or change your phone number.
I mean, if you have to resort to those tactics to increase paper subscriptions, it's probably time to start moving in a different direction.
I agree that Sharp should have been called out, but if you read Harns's original response he basically said the Free Press apologized and he was moving on. The fact that Drew Sharp didn't follow up to personally apologize is unsurprising given how much of an ashhole the guy seems to be, but at the same time it feels like Harns is complaining a bit because he didn't get the result he wanted later on.
He mentions rhetorically whether or not Sharp should be fired or other reprimanded for his theft, but says he leaves it to others to decide. Well, sadly, the Freep didn't do any of that because they are the same crappy sports section they've been for going on 20 years, and Sharp is one of the few "names" that gets any type of heat for them.
I guess I support him saying it now that he wished more had come of Sharp's actions, but this does read a bit like a guy who is bothered other people didn't get their hands dirtier dealing with an issue that affected him, when yeah, he should have written this months ago. It just feels a bit like he wants some more time to be righteously indignant.
Mitch Albom took time from watching an NCAA MBB tournament game with Jason Richardson and Mateen Cleaves, and gave Sharp a lecture on journalism ethics.
Later that night, Albom returned to writing his latest sports-insider classic: Coaching With Class, Playing With Class - The Mike Krzyzewski Story (with forwards by Christian Laettner, Bobby Knight and Grayson Allen).
Freep Management let Albom get away effectively unpunished for his own (arguably WORSE) unethical behavior.
Drew Sharp is an unethical idiot himself --- but his behavior is, in part, a symptom. Management's lack of balls (to fire Albom) in the mid-2000s is a partial root cause.
Drew Sharpe is a POS, a terrible writer, and not worthy of the title "reporter". That said, he's hardly the first media/public figure to be seduced into stealing the work of others. Just a short list of some of the biggest names:
- Maureen Dowd, who famously lambasted Joe Biden (see below) for his plagiarism
- Fareed Zakariah
- Doris Kearns-Goodwin (this one was personally painful, as I really admire her work)
- Stephen Ambrose
- Mike Barnicle (long time Boston Globe reporter)
- Jayson Blair (former NYT reporter who's become the poster-boy for plagiarism, though he really just made stuff up rather than stealing from others.
Some big-name politicians too:
- Joe Biden
-Rand Paul
There have been lots of other famous accusations of plagiarism, but I think you get my point. Sometimes it kills a career, sometimes it's considered just a mistake that is overlooked/forgiven/forgotten.
Who had a movie made about him called "Shattered Glass" with Hayden Christensen staring as Glass.
Sharp, not Sharpe. My apologies. Obviously, I don't read his drivel.
But plagiarism is, sadly, widespread. I think Drew Sharp is a piece of crap, awful writer, and unworthy of the title "reporter". However, he's not the first media figure (or public figure) to succumb to the temptation of pirating the work of others. Here are a few examples:
- Maureen Dowd, who took Joe Biden to task for his plagiarism.
- Fareed Zakaraiah
- Doris Kearns-Goodwin (a shame, because I had always admired her work)
- Stephen Ambrose
- Mike Barnicle (of the Boston Globe)
- Jayson Blair (NYT reporter who not only plagiarizes, but he also just makes stuff up)
Politicians Joe Biden and Rand Paul also have been accused of plagiarism.
There are other well-known accusations of plagiarism, but the above is probably sufficient. Sometimes plagiarism can destroy someones career, and other times it's viewed as a mistake and forgotten in the long-run.
Lots of politicians get accused of plagiarism.
Two follow up points:
- Politicians will say anything. This was originally brought up by Hillary: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/us/politics/19campaign.html?_r=0
- It's a speech. And polititians never write their own speeches. Y'all need to cool off on that.
used to have the best collection of sports writers in the country.
I wasn't crazy about Joe Falls, but I'd take him over 90% of the journalists in town now.
George Puscas was a great writer. I read him even though he had a heavy emphasis on boxing and the NFL, topics that bore me.
He didn't write articles to make himself the subject; he wrote in an unpretentious way that communicated relevant information concisely and clearly, without the puffery that clowns like Albom are so full of. Since I love boxing, Puscas was great to have in Detroit.
Most of what I recall of Puscas were his "Love Letters" that appeared in the Saturday paper.
But one thing I do remember, despite only being 8 years old --- reading his column on Tuesday Morning, the day after Hagler/Hearns from Vegas in 1985. I knew even then, THAT was some quality writing --- and quality writing that befit a hell of a boxing match.
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which plagiarized article?
Anyway, people have been calling Sharp out on twitter every chance they get. He deserves every bit of it.
I assume Freep will not pick up this article
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Here he is, lecturing public sports figures about how to handle themselves in public. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right? If so, then what’s good for the sports public is good for the journalists that report on them.
I guess this is one of the things that always irritated me about the man more than most things - he writes rather a lot of holier-than-thou claptrap and yet behaves in a manner that makes you wonder how his employer can look at themselves in the mirror when they read those columns. That's merely one of many detestable qualities about the man though.