Wash Times' 'Quote Heist'
If you’re going to copy from someone, copy from the best, right? Lynn Sweet, one of the hardest working journalists on the Hill, found an article very similar to hers in Friday’s Washington Times. “Call the journalism police. It’s a quote heist,” she blogged.
Eric Pfeffier, who wrote the National Review’s Beltway Buzz and recently started at the Washington Times (with a brief stop at Wonkette), managed to quote the Daily Kos founder as well as Senator Trent Lott, and describe Obama’s office in great detail without ever figuring out any of that himself.
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