The Associated Press story on the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay, by education reporters Collin Binkley and Moriah Balingit, was a hysterical woke whine from headline to text: “Plagiarism charges downed Harvard’s president. A conservative attack helped to fan the outrage.”
The story’s promotion on X was even more ludicrous: “Harvard president’s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism.” (Journalist-novelist Kat Rosenfeld mocked: “Hannibal Lecter’s resignation from the APA highlights new conservative weapon against psychiatry: cannibalism”)
The actual text was no better.
Reviews by Harvard found multiple shortcomings in Gay’s academic citations, including several instances of “duplicative language.” While the university concluded the errors “were not considered intentional or…
