Phoning and faxing have more impact. The excuse given for the firing of Jacoby is laughable. The signers risked everything. By James Taranto Rewriting the work of others is nothing out of the ordinary. My first journalistic experience was a summer internship at the United Press International where, every night, an editor would pick out an article or two from the L.A. Times for me to rewrite sometimes with attribution, sometimes without.
Journalists routinely recycle enough to make any environmentalist proud.
It would be easier to take the Globe 's action against Jacoby at face value if the paper were not hyper-liberal and if Jacoby had not previously come under fire there for his conservative views. In 1997, Jacoby wrote a column suggesting that Christians who object to homosexuality are not morally equivalent to Nazis or Ku Kluxers. Jr. Most of us first heard about the ill-fated Founders at age 6, and again every year or two since then. Among the reasons why liberals hate capitalism and a free press is that they know in a free competition of ideas they will lose. The real sin of Jeff Jacoby is that in the journalistic desert of Boston Globe conformist leftism, he was a green oasis of truth and mental stimulation.