Jamieson to Newsweek: Share My Words, Share My Pain

No hard feelings from Washington City Paper’s Dave Jamieson, whose April 7 Slate piece hating on lacrosse culture was “closely tracked” in a May 1 Newsweek cover story about the Duke lax scandal.

Newsweek ran a correction of sorts in their May 15 issue (The Weekly Standard’s Scrapbook pointed out the similarities between the two stories on May 8).

Here’s the Newsweek “Editor’s Note”: “In our cover story on the Duke lacrosse team, a description of lacrosse players closely tracked language in a story on the lacrosse culture that appeared in Slate, the online magazine.

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