IRONY ALERT
So a writer from the New York Times plagiarizes a blogger. Nice.
If this damages Dowd's career -- or somehow harms the Times -- it'll certainly give credence to the idea that blogging is bad for reporting. Heh, heh.
What I wanna know, of course, is did Dowd sneak into Marshall's mother's basement to steal his words, or did she access them some other way?
If this damages Dowd's career -- or somehow harms the Times -- it'll certainly give credence to the idea that blogging is bad for reporting. Heh, heh.
What I wanna know, of course, is did Dowd sneak into Marshall's mother's basement to steal his words, or did she access them some other way?
posted by Mike at 6:12 AM
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I've read a bit about this, and it seems much ado about nothing, though Cole over at Balloon Juice ripped Malkin for using this as "more proof of liberal bias" in the news.
Makes me wonder what else she's lifted. There's probably an army of people out there searching furiously for other Dowd thefts.
Applesaucer
I was thinking about it, and sadly, it seems that somehow bloggers are able to do better research and break better stories than their traditional media counterparts. That's a bad bad thing when what amount to Op-Ed writers are outdoing reporters...
I think she lifted her face.
The story does seem a tad inflated [insert balloon juice joke here]. Rickey has long disliked MoDo for her glib & smarmy attitude in her columns, but the fact is, this shit occurs to every writer at some point in their career. She neglected to credit a source. It happens.
If Dowd was plagiarizing on a regular basis, her writing would be helluva lot better than it is now.
"If Dowd was plagiarizing on a regular basis, her writing would be helluva lot better than it is now"
lol
Well said.
I think I'm gonna use that one...
Applesaucer
[Staff at Goldman Sachs staff can look forward to the biggest bonus payouts in the firm's 140-year history after a spectacular first half of the year...]
Edgar, just sickening, disheartening news. Not only have we bailed out/propped up these corrupt institutions, but now we're paying their gaudy bonuses in a terrible economic downturn.
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