Posted on 11/08/2014 7:28:05 AM PST by dynachrome
Earlier this week, a reporter, an editor and a copy editor were suspended over a story they'd worked on highlighting criticisms of a financial partnership between The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education and the activewear retailer Lululemon.
There were no errors, fabrications or plagiarized quotes in the story, but a version originally published on Saturday relied primarily on critical anonymously posted comments appearing on the Lululemon website. (The quotations taken from those comments have been removed from the Huffington Post article, according to an editor's note attached to the piece.)
Several months earlier, in August, a junior-level writer and an editor were suspended after publishing an aggregated article about plagiarism accusations leveled against CNN's Fareed Zakaria.
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link to the comments about the Dalai Lama
http://blog.lululemon.com/lululemon-and-the-dalai-lama-center/
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