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New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd admits inadvertently using blogger's words as her own
AP ^ | 7:44 PM PDT, May 17, 2009

Posted on 05/17/2009 8:17:14 PM PDT by james500

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has admitted to using a paragraph virtually word-for-word from a prominent liberal blogger without attribution.

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 is expected to issue a formal correction Monday. A request for comment from The Associated Press was not immediately returned by the Times late Sunday.

The error appeared in Dowd's Sunday column, in which she criticized the Bush administration's use of interrogation methods in the run-up to the Iraq war.

In the original column, Dowd wrote: "More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when the Bush crowd was looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq."

Marshall last week wrote virtually the same sentence. But where Dowd's column used the phrase "the Bush crowd was," Marshall used "we were."

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New York
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To: paudio

19 posts and nobody follows the Rules!


21 posted on 05/17/2009 9:33:17 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Rules!


22 posted on 05/17/2009 9:40:27 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
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To: anniegetyourgun

“How does one inadvertently plagerize?”

Oh, you know, same way Hillary Clinton’s plane come “under sniper fire” in March 1996.


23 posted on 05/17/2009 9:58:09 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: james500
Something along these lines was used by the Boston Globe to silence conservative columnist Jeff Jacoby for four months during the 2000 election.

Somehow, I doubt the same standards will apply to the liberal columnist, even if the NYT didn't own the Boston Globe at the time.

-PJ

24 posted on 05/17/2009 10:11:16 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (This just in... Voting Republican is a Terrorist act!)
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To: james500

Boris Pasternak did the same thing to me.


25 posted on 05/17/2009 10:15:01 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: james500

She read his blog before she didn’t read his blog.

Mo’s the pity.


26 posted on 05/17/2009 10:21:11 PM PDT by Rocky (OBAMA: Succeeding where bin Laden failed.)
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To: anniegetyourgun

MoDo has been “running on fumes”...

Someone else wrote that, but I found who right away by googling

October 17, 2002, 9:00 a.m.
The Dowd Rule
Words to read the New York Times by.

By Mark Goldblatt

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who once upon a time was a clever little girl, but who’s been running on fumes since roughly the last presidential election, nowadays can hardly write 600 words without a gratuitous swipe at George Bush’s supposed lack of intelligence. In her honor, therefore, I would like to name the Dowd Rule. To wit: No one who thinks George W. Bush is stupid is as smart as George W. Bush.


27 posted on 05/17/2009 10:34:43 PM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: james500

is plagarism a critical skill at the NYT?


28 posted on 05/17/2009 10:38:10 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: james500

‘inadvertently’?

Is that what they are calling blatant plagiarism now??

“Joe Biden, pick up the white phone in the lobby, Joe Biden, you’re needed on line 1 for a consult!”


29 posted on 05/17/2009 10:50:39 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: james500
The error appeared in Dowd's Sunday column, in which she criticized the Bush administration's use of interrogation methods in the run-up to the Iraq war.

Too funny! The crAP calling plagerism by a NYT columnist an "error".

Calling Helen Thomas a journalist is an error. Plagerism by a well-seasoned, elderly writer is not an error, it is the gravest crime a writer can be accused of.

30 posted on 05/17/2009 10:54:43 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Obama has raised gas prices 40%. Thank you Obamination!)
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To: clintonh8r
The Joseph Biden School of Plagiarism.

The Exquisite Plagiarism School by Joe Biden.

31 posted on 05/17/2009 10:57:39 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Obama has raised gas prices 40%. Thank you Obamination!)
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To: FBD

Dowd does a Biden?


32 posted on 05/18/2009 4:55:05 AM PDT by BraveMan
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

33 posted on 05/18/2009 6:39:55 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: james500

“All she’s got now is bourbon for mouthwash, and it’s showing on her columns.” — Rush Limbaugh


34 posted on 05/18/2009 6:53:28 AM PDT by TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa (Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Kenya.)
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To: karnage

Thank you. Of course, my question was rhetorical. However, in this unknowing day and age, answering such things is probably required.


35 posted on 05/18/2009 6:56:29 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: james500
Inadvertently, of course...

Pfffft.

36 posted on 05/18/2009 6:57:27 AM PDT by TChris (There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
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To: anniegetyourgun

Repressed memory?


37 posted on 05/18/2009 7:01:46 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: james500

So she’s saying it was a Steel Magnolia moment??...


38 posted on 05/18/2009 7:03:59 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: james500
Mo Dowd's new man in her life.


39 posted on 05/18/2009 7:10:32 AM PDT by McGruff (When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. - Will Rogers)
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To: luvbach1; FBD; abb; Milhous
"Perhaps she intended to plagiarize something else and inadvertently plagerized this."

BWWWWHAAAAAA!!!
Yes, that has to be it!

And here we thought competition for a Putz-licker Jive was tough.
Pfffffft.
Try *winning* a "Blair Affair" and you'll learn the meaning of compete.
Dowd-y to date has a hands-down lock for 2009's "Blair Affair".

Of course, there's still plenty of time for another NYSlimes' plagiarist to have a shot. :o)

40 posted on 05/18/2009 8:00:50 AM PDT by Landru (Arghh, Liberals are trapped in my colon like spackle or paste.)
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