Regret the Error

It appears that Radar magazine produces some very enticing content. Last year, a Chilean magazine plagiarized from Radar’s Toxic Bachelors feature. Then, this past Sunday, the London Sunday Times “inadvertently” plagiarized content from a Radar piece, “100 Reasons Why You’re Still Single.” A report from the Guardian:

A piece headlined “50 Reasons Why You’re Still Single” appeared in the Sunday Times Style magazine, bylined to the title’s deputy editor, Camilla Long.
The feature was a humorous miscellany of men and women’s irritating personal habits, such as “use the word babe” and “posed with your cat on your Facebook profile”.
However, more than 15 of the Sunday Times’ 50 entries were substantially similar to a list, “100 Reasons Why You’re Still Single”, that appeared in US pop culture Radar magazine last September.
The Style magazine editor, Tiffany Darke, confirmed that the magazine’s deputy editor, Camilla Long, penned the piece.
Darke also confirmed that many of the items were the same as those included in Radar’s list.
She told MediaGuardian.co.uk that Style magazine had decided to run a piece on the theme and invited contributions from friends, contacts and colleagues.
The Sunday Times’ “50 Reasons…” piece had separate men’s and women’s lists with 25 items each, while Radar had a single list with 100 entries.
Darke said the items that were the same as on Radar’s list came from an unnamed contributor and the magazine ran them without checking…

The Guardian piece also includes a comparison between the Radar and Times articles. Hopefully the paper will do away with publishing unchecked information from “unnamed contributors.”