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Dubai-bashing British writer Johann Hari has made a public apology and returned a prestigious journalism prize after admitting plagiarism.

Hari, whose portrayal of Dubai included describing the city as being built on “suppression and slavery”, also admitted using a pseudonym to attack his critics online in an open apology written for the Independent newspaper.

In a 1,174-word apology published by the paper, the George Orwell prize winner admitted doing “wrong and stupid things” and breaching “the most basic ethical rule”.

Kind of sad really isn't it. There will always be people who do that kind of thing though to gain attention. Glad he owned up to it, but his career is in tatters now.

The reality may not be so simple. He maintains he didn't commit plagiarism.

quote: 'It's clearly not plagiarism or churnalism – but was it an error in another way? Yes'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/ju ... iew-quotes.

The way he describes it, he mixed in quotes from other sources with his own interview material. It seems a bit unfair describing that as plagerism as reporters often use other news reports as sources of information.

Chocoholic wrote:Kind of sad really isn't it. There will always be people who do that kind of thing though to gain attention. Glad he owned up to it, but his career is in tatters now.

waiting your turn to come choc

Why not be big about it and accept the apology?