The Memphis Flyer highlights a curious, if not disturbing piece of evidence on the journalistic standards to the New York Times. About a year ago, Little Rock writer Leslie Peacock wrote a story about the discovery of the ivory—billed woodpecker in Arkansas. The article first ran in the Arkansas Times. A couple weeks later, we edited it slightly for our Memphis readership and popped it into the Flyer. Peacock is a strong writer and she'd come up with a clever concept, to wit: "Poet Wallace Stevens' '13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' is about the vagaries of perception. This story is about how we see things too. And so: 13 ways of looking at an ivory—billed woodpecker." Imagine our surprise when we opened Sunday's New York Times Sunday Magazine article on the Ivory—bill, also broken into 13 segments and also called — you guessed it — "13 Ways of Looking at an Ivory—billed Woodpecker. It may not exactly be plagiarism, but it's damn close, and our...(Read Full Post)