Friday, March 24, 2006

The Powerful Role of the Internet

Washington Post's Conservative Blogger Resigns Amid Plagiarism Allegations... (after 3 days on the job)

Headline by The Huffington Post (attribution!)


We appreciate the speed and thoroughness with which our readers and media outlets surfaced these allegations. Despite the turn this has taken, we believe this event, among other things, testifies to the positive and powerful role that the Internet can play in the the practice of journalism.
-WaPo Editors

2 comments:

robert said...

Quiz for the day. Who wrote:

"Does anyone honestly believe that Doris Kearns Goodwin's tactic of pre-empting damaging plagiarism revelations by admitting to it beforehand will actually work?"

Ten points if you guessed Ben Domenech
(Bendomenech.com, 2-25-02)

Schadenfreude is a very under-rated feeling.
By: dogtowndennis on HuffPo, 3/24/06 at 03:17pm

robert said...

Ben Domenech has posted a response to his critics.