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Originally Posted by ZonieDiver
Did you read the excerpts from both books in the article? If you did, how could you not see that significant ideas, plot threads, and some actual language was 'lifted' from one to the other.
That is quite different from hiring a 'ghost writer' to pen an original work from your ideas. INHO, Beck is in love with the sound of his own voice, an often self-congratulatory voice. He is in love with raking in $$$. To me, regardless of his political 'philosophy,' that puts him inthe boat with Olbermann, O'Reilly, Lmbaugh, Matthews, and other media 'news' and 'commentary' personalities. Like them, he is more about generating 'heat' instead of 'light.'. Their main intention is to get you to 'tune in again tomorrow.'. A pox upon them all, sez I.
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A ghostwriter is a professional writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person. Celebrities, executives, and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies, magazine articles, or other written material. In music, ghostwriters are used in film score composition, as well as for writing songs and lyrics for popular music styles ranging from country to hip-hop.
Ghostwriters may have varying degrees of involvement in the production of a finished work; while some ghostwriters are hired to edit and clean up a rough draft, in other cases, ghostwriters do most of the writing based on an outline provided by the credited author. For some projects, ghostwriters will do a substantial amount of research, as in the case of a ghostwriter who is hired to write an autobiography for a well-known person. Ghostwriters are also hired to write fiction in the style of an existing author, often as a way of increasing the number of books that can be published by a popular author (e.g., Tom Clancy, James Patterson). Ghostwriters will often spend from several months to a full year researching, writing, and editing nonfiction works for a client, and they are paid either per page, with a flat fee, or a percentage of the royalties of the sales, or some combination thereof. The ghostwriter is sometimes acknowledged by the author or publisher for his or her writing services.
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