I sat and watched a short piece on N-TV (German commercial news) this AM. Curious investigative deal.
So, there's this plagiarism 'hunter' (Stefan Weber). He's now completed a study of candidate Baerbock (for the Green Party) and her book (Now, How We Renew Our Country). It came out very early this year.
What he says is that there are a minimum of 100 pieces in the book which fit into lacking citations or sources incorrectly given.
He also has studied books by Scholz and Laschet....finding similar problems but not at the rate that Baerbock committed.
What really happened here? My humble view is that Baerbock just flat out made a sudden decision to write a book....just to get interviews or notice by the news media. Then she (or her hired 'writer) just rushed through the process....copying and pasting....word-smithing...wrapping up the project in record time.
If the plagiarism hunters started doing this on a daily basis? Well....you'd probably find half the books written in the past five years to be 'guilty' of something.
As for Baerbock possibly writing a future book? That might be an interesting question to ask.
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