Another One Bites The Dust

New Year…same old crap.

Baltimore Sun columnist Michael Olesker has been let go by the paper for plagiarism (or the P.C. term: “attribution issues”). Olesker claims his gaffes were never intentional. “That would be professional suicide, unethical and immoral. I’m sick over what happened.”

Intentional or not, Sun Editor Timothy Franklin said “there was a distinct pattern of a lack of attribution in his columns. There were four separate instances we know about in the last year and a half.”

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