Thursday, July 21, 2022

Mini-plagiarism by Jake Maderazo

Last July 4 I wrote in my column the paper "The Bulacan Ecozone veto and Ben Diokno books"
https://www.bworldonline.com/opinion/2022/07/04/459153/the-bulacan-ecozone-veto-and-ben-diokno-books/

"...One, it will increase competition among Ecozones and Freeports. In particular, the Bulacan Ecozone will compete with nearby Clark, Subic, Bataan, and other Ecozones...

Two,... Bureau of Customs, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and the Department of National Defense). Bulacan Ecozone will operate as a separate customs territory and will have internal security and military forces for national defense.

Three, it promotes provincial economic competition and the principle of subsidiarity (which states that if a local authority can perform a function, it should not be taken by a higher or national authority)."

Then I discovered that on July 5, PDI opinion writer Jake Maderazo wrote in his article, "Stop further delays on the new Bulacan Aerocity and Ecozone", 
 
https://opinion.inquirer.net/154726/stop-further-delays-on-the-new-bulacan-aerocity-and-ecozone

"...Three reasons, first, it will increase competition among Ecozones and Freeports citing nearby Clark, Subic, Bataan and other Ecozones. Second, it will become a separate territory, out of control from the Bureau of Customs, DENR and DND. And third, it promotes provincial economic competition and the “principle of “subsidiarity” (which states that if a local authority can perform a function, it should not be taken by a higher or national authority)."


He rephrased my reasons one and two, then copy-pasted my reason number three. Plagiarism. Shame on him.

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