CNN's Egan: Some Charges of 'Sloppy Attribution' Against Harvard Pres. Were from 'Right-Wing Activists' Playing Politics

On Tuesday's broadcast of "CNN News Central," CNN Reporter Matt Egan stated that some of the initial plagiarism allegations against outgoing Harvard President Claudine Gay "came from activists, not activists who were fired up about academic citation, it was really right-wing activists who feel that a lot of these Ivy League presidents are too liberal." And that the charges against Gay were "more like copying other people's writings without attribution" and "more sloppy attribution than stealing anyone's ideas."