JewishWorldReview
July 8, 2000
Benjamin L. Jolkovsky
I AM ANGRY --- AND YOU SHOULD BE, TOO!
JEFF JACOBY, one of America's most outspoken and powerful
wordsmiths, has been put on a four month suspension by the
hyper-P.C. Boston Globe. His "crime"? He retold the history of
this nation in a way others have retold it since its birth. He
used material that was in the public domain and INDEPENDENTLY
VERIFIED what he wrote. In the course of Jacoby's research, he
discovered that some of what is being passed off as fact is
actually myth. Were some turns-of-phrase he used similar to her
writers? Certainly. But there are only so many variations of
words that can be used to describe factual events.
Jacoby's column, in and of itself, cannot be said to be a copy of
other folks' works. It is fresh; punchy; and, no doubt, brings a
tear to even his most staunch ideological enemies.
And that, of course, is what Jeff's punishment is all about. the
past, he had the audacity to question what is more and more
becoming the accepted norm in this era of moral-revisionism. It
is no secret that the Globe has wanted him purged from his perch
for the longest of time --- and, as Rod Dreher recently wrote in
the Weekly Standard, the Globe has clearly made it known which
side they are on in this culture war. AND I DO NOT USE THAT TERM
LIGHTLY.
Jeff is young, married with a child. Make no mistake about it,
his enemies are attempting to destroy his ability to practice his
craft as a journalist. They are attempting to destroy him
professionally. True, a wise man once said, that you can judge a
man by his enemies. But nobody wants to test that adage.
Perhaps the Globe, who already made Jeff's infraction known in an
editorial earlier in the week, is overreacting because previous
outright plagiarism, most notably by Mike Barnicle and another
staffer. But one wonders what will happen to Jeff's editors,
whose job it is to oversee their charges, checking and rechecking
acts and sources.
Are you angry yet?
In the letter Jeff received Friday afternoon from his higher-ups,
he was also scolded for -- get this -- circulating his column to
friends and family before it wound up on the Globe's site, which
offers the ability to "e-mail a friend." In his final column,
Jeff wrote to his friends about how some of what is spreading on
the web is factually inaccurate and acknowledged he based his
column on some histories by others. He is hardly your dime store
plagiarist.
The Globe's phone number is 617.929.7900. The fax is:
617.929.8690, 617.929.7026 Letters to the Editor:
I never, EVER use JWR for appeals other than for this webzine.
But let me ask you this, dear reader, if you were in Jeff's
position, would you not want help from folks who care?
Binyamin L. Jolkovsky,
Editor in Chief,
JewishWorldReview.com
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