Mixing, Not Plagiarism

Helene Hegemann, first in line when they gave out the balls (or maybe she mixed in someone else's balls).

from: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/world/europe/12germany.html

"Although Ms. Hegemann has apologized for not being more open about her sources, she has also defended herself as the representative of a different generation, one that freely mixes and matches from the whirring flood of information across new and old media, to create something new. “There’s no such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity,” said Ms. Hegemann in a statement released by her publisher after the scandal broke."

I could comment on this, but I'll just mix in something from the web:

"He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his own nose, is lyke a foole."

No point in identifying the writer. He's long dead. It's the authenticity of the statement that's important.

Here's a picture of Helene that I took.

Well.... I took it from the web. But it accurately portrays the subject.