Susan Sontag died yesterday and media outlets everywhere are offering tributes. The Chronicle chimes in with a piece written by Fritz Lanham. Sort of. At the end of Lanham’s article is this:
The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
Perhaps the Chronicle should have done what the Washington Times did and just say the story was from “combined dispatches”? With three media sources contributing to the Chronicle‘s story, the question should be: what exactly did Lanham contribute?
In a post on Sontag’s death, Orrin Judd links to a Guardian news story on a plagiarism controversy that erupted over her novel, “In America.” The Chronicle story doesn’t mention this blemish, although the New York Times story does, toward the very end.
