Ms. Wiseman has posted a defense of her alleged Plagiarism, placing the blame squarely on her Editors. Although she doesn't deny the charge of taking all her information from the Express-- not Plagiarism strictly speaking, but lazy.

For the sake of the Patriot, and myself, it is necessary to set the record straight regarding this recent dispute about the article I wrote concerning the Berkeley Landmarks Commission.

The article submitted by me, in its original form, contained full attribution of sources. I have the documentation that clearly shows that those references were present in the article's submission. Unfortunately, for whatever reason after editing and production, those citations were omitted in the final published edition of December's Patriot. The article is currently posted on the Patriot website with all the citations that should have been included the first time.

I ask you, what motives would I have to do such a thing? To take direct quotes from another east-Bay publication to put into another publication that will largely be distributed in the east-Bay? I would never do such a thing in the first place and especially not when there is such a high probability that someone would connect the dots between the two.

I regret that the proper mentions were removed and it is unfortunate that this situation had to occur.

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