Posted on 03/24/2006 10:47:49 AM PST by RWR8189
In the past 24 hours, we learned of allegations that Ben Domenech plagiarized material that appeared under his byline in various publications prior to washingtonpost.com contracting with him to write a blog that launched Tuesday.
An investigation into these allegations was ongoing, and in the interim, Domenech has resigned, effective immediately.
When we hired Domenech, we were not aware of any allegations that he had plagiarized any of his past writings. In any cases where allegations such as these are made, we will continue to investigate those charges thoroughly in order to maintain our journalistic integrity.
Plagiarism is perhaps the most serious offense that a writer can commit or be accused of. Washingtonpost.com will do everything in its power to verify that its news and opinion content is sourced completely and accurately at all times.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.washingtonpost.com ...
Thankfully, this episode has proven once again that conservatives have principles. If a Leftie were caught in a similar crime, the libs would rally around him and make excuses. I'm figuring Red State will boot him very soon, and the Con Blogs have been brutal this morning. We police our own.
"Walter Duranty."
You don't mean the guy that totally fabricated stories in the 1930's about the heavenly bliss that was the USSR, and won a Pulitzer Prize for it?
The Prize the NY Times still keeps active and prominently displayed??
I don't recall Duranty ever being accused of plagiarism. What he did was much worse: he was a stooge for Stalin and even won a Pulitzer (for what that's worth!) for distorting and covering up the Ukranian genocide during the dictator's infamous agrarian 'reforms.' The Times has a long record of liberal shamelessness.
NO, it says that plagarizers should run for president so we can have a lot of fun making fun of them.
How about advocating violence or murder of political figures? This statement smacks loudly of elitism.
I feel like Rip Van Winkle. Who is Ben Domanech?
Without NOTED acknowledgement, what Ben did is plagiarism. Period.
If you quote, you must quote, and cite source. Right there, in the text. There is no such thing as "private" permission.
I do some work with Ben, and have published some of his articles on the website I edit, Boundless.org
I'm planning to chat with him about it within a few days, and will post my findings here.
Let's try to assume that he's innocent until proven guilty.
Yeah, that was my point. I quoted the WaPo piece that said plagiarism was the worst thing a writer could do. Then I cited Walter Duranty as something much worse than plagiarism.
It's identical to the Salon site. And it is simply examples of where his writings were copies of other writings.
This isn't plagerism if he had permission. These weren't things he was REQUIRED to write in his own hand (as a thesis, for example).
Since I'm defending him I better say that I would hope to never do this without mentioning where I got the original from, or at least who the person was, even if I had permission. If I was required to keep anonymous, I would still say it wasn't my own words.
And I don't mind him resigning over this. I'm just saying we shouldn't accuse him of PLAGERISM until we know it's a plagerism case, rather than simply taking credit for stuff you didn't write.
Well, that's an interesting question, but when you recycle PJ O Rourke's stuff, that's definitely plagiarism. Daily Kos and Atrios have accumulated scores of examples of his plagiarism. The only mystery is how he went undetected for so long.
Domenech is a creationist, BTW. I'm not shedding tears over his demise.
You are wrong, because simply writing something doesn't carry a contract that the words were written by the person whose name is on it.
As an obvious example, some "authors" have a ghost writer actually WRITE the books, and never disclose the fact. We don't like it, but it isn't plagerism to have thier name on the book.
Because, they had PRIVATE PERMISSION, and in fact paid money, to put their name on their ghost writer's words.
Hmmmm.... Makes one wonder if the WaPo hired him in order to fire him, eh?
Cheats, liars, and plagiarists have no place in public or professional life. That's why I'm certain that the MSM will be demanding resignations from Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, and a large number of other 'Rat frauds.
No. It's an embarrassment for the WaPo.
And who are we to complain...? ;-)
Yes, while Dan Blather and Mary Mapes are STILL to this day treated as highly respected (gag) members of the MSM. Nothing wrong with what they did, huh, MSM?
I am glad that conservatives have once again shown we can emphasize principles over individuals and not defend the indefensible just because he is "one of us" or doing work for our cause(s). That's a fundamental difference between the vast majority of conservatives and the vast majority of spineless lying liberals.
Well, every dark cloud has a silver lining!
Then should Senator Biden resign right now?
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