In 2004, Johann Hari interviewed Daily Mail journalist Ann Leslie. In his introductory paragraphs, he explained that he had affection for her, even though he regarded The Mail as 'a Mephistopholean font of evil'.
Curious, because Hari plagiarized enormous chunks of the 'interview' from an article Ann Leslie wrote for The Mail in 1997. The article was published on August 12 1997, and was headlined 'There are roses, foxhounds and schoolgirls in uniform'. Hari used 772 words of this article in his 'interview'. In the case of 227 words, he made it clear he was quoting from something Leslie had written before (although he didn't mention it had been in The Mail), which is remarkably brazen considering he plagiarized a further 545 words from the same article.
With those 545 words, he not only failed to attribute them to any article by Ann Leslie, but he also pretended she had said them directly to him. Here are all the parts of Ann Leslie's 1997 Daily Mail article and the corresponding passages from Johann Hari's 'interview'. I think these passages and the others in interviews with George Michael, Malalai Joya and many others speak for themselves: Johann Hari is a systematic and extensive plagiarist, and has been for years....read more
http://jeremyduns.blogspot.com/2011/07/johann-hari-plagiarizes-daily-mail.html
