Monday, May 18, 2009
MoDo 'fesses up
Maureen Dowd, erstwhile brilliant columnist for the NY Times has confessed to plagiarizing a paragraph in her Sunday column.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has admitted to using a paragraph virtually word-for-word from a prominent liberal blogger without attribution.Damned liberal, always apologizing and correcting their mistakes,
Dowd acknowledged the error in an e-mail to The Huffington Post on Sunday, the Web site reported. The Times corrected her column online to give proper credit for the material to Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall.
The newspaper issued a formal correction Monday saying Dowd "failed to attribute a paragraph about the timeline for prisoner abuse" to Marshall's blog.
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