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Former executive editor of the New York Times Jill Abramson on Wednesday denied allegations that she plagiarized portions of her new book, "Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts."Abramson was confronted about the allegations - which are outlined in a Twitter thread by Vice News' Michael Moynihan - during an appearance on Fox News. When asked by host Martha MacCallum if she had any comment on the numerous similarities detailed by Moynihan, Abramson replied, "I really don't.""All I can tell you is I certainly didn't plagiarize in my book and there's 70 pages of footnotes showing where I got the information," Abramson said.Moynihan's tweets went viral Wednesday and brought a lot of attention to Abramson's book, which was mired in controversy even before it was published this month. The thread, which focuses on three chapters Abramson wrote on the media company Vice, highlights paragraphs containing language that appears to be lifted from material published in Time Out, the New Yorker and the Columbia Journalism Review.
