Newspaper Apologizes to LA Times for Op Ed Plagiarism
The Contra Costa Times has been forced to make an embarrassing admission. After publishing a Monday April 2 commentary about failed attempts by the California court system to implement an expensive computerized system, the newspaper was alerted to some information that has led to “appropriate personnel action.”
Under the headline “Editorial Breached Public Trust,” Contra Costa Times editorial page editor Dan Hatfield explains this week’s chain of events:
After publication of the editorial, it was brought to our attention by an editor at the Los Angeles Times that our editorial had taken a nearly identical approach to one that his newspaper had published several days before ours.
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