{"id":2068,"date":"2013-02-14T01:46:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T06:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2013-02-14T01:46:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T06:46:15","slug":"knight-foundation-regrets-paying-noted-plagiarist-jonah-lehrer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/02\/14\/knight-foundation-regrets-paying-noted-plagiarist-jonah-lehrer\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight Foundation Regrets Paying Noted Plagiarist Jonah Lehrer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/02\/13\/20-jonah-lehrer.o.jpg\/a_190x190.jpg?w=525\"><\/p>\n<p>When the Knight Foundation, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knightfoundation.org\/what-we-fund\/innovating-media\">stated mission<\/a> is to promote &#8220;quality journalism,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/02\/jonah-lehrer-apologizes-convinces-no-one.html\">paid admitted plagiarist and fabricator Jonah Lehrer $20,000<\/a> to speak at its seminar in Miami, the irony was lost on nobody \u00e2\u20ac\u201d except maybe the Knight Foundation, whose president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/erik-wemple\/wp\/2013\/02\/12\/knight-foundation-president-lehrers-20000-not-controversial\/\">told Erik Wemple<\/a> the booking found little dissent among its leaders. But after a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=knight%20foundation%2C%20lehrer&amp;src=typd\">steady flow of criticism<\/a> since Lehrer&#8217;s address, the Foundation has finally thought better of its decision. On Wednesday night it ran a blog post saying the speaker fee was inappropriate and a &#8220;mistake.&#8221; The problem wasn&#8217;t the fact that Lehrer spoke, but that the foundation paid him. &#8220;<span>Knight Foundation should not have put itself into a position tantamount to rewarding people who have violated the basic tenets of journalism.<\/span>&#8221; But it did, and now the Knight Foundation regrets the error.<\/p>\n<p>Read more posts by <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/author\/adam%20martin\">Adam Martin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filed Under:<br \/>\n          <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/scandal-stained-wretches\" title=\"Read all posts tagged scandal-stained wretches\">scandal-stained wretches<\/a><br \/>\n            <\/strong>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/knight-foundation\" title=\"Read all posts tagged knight foundation\">knight foundation<\/a><br \/>\n            ,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/jonah-lehrer\" title=\"Read all posts tagged jonah lehrer\">jonah lehrer<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p>via Daily Intelligencer <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/02\/knight-foundation-regrets-paying-jonah-lehrer.html\">http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/02\/knight-foundation-regrets-paying-jonah-lehrer.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Knight Foundation, whose stated mission is to promote &#8220;quality journalism,&#8221; paid admitted plagiarist and fabricator Jonah Lehrer $20,000 to speak at its seminar in Miami, the irony was lost on nobody \u00e2\u20ac\u201d except maybe the Knight Foundation, whose president told Erik Wemple the booking found little dissent among its leaders. But after a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/02\/14\/knight-foundation-regrets-paying-noted-plagiarist-jonah-lehrer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Knight Foundation Regrets Paying Noted Plagiarist Jonah Lehrer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[785,782,6],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-adam-martin","tag-daily-intelligencer","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-xm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}