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	<title><![CDATA[The Left and Right Agree: Plagiarism is Bad]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-sklar/the-left-and-right-agree-_b_18168.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>The dust is settling now on <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/online_media/ben_domenech_resigns_34350.asp"><em>l'affaire </em>Ben Domenech</a> at the WashingtonPost website, wherein an aggressive, undertalented, arch-Conservative young writer was hired to helm WaPo's first right-wing blog, presumably to counter the so-called liberal tendencies of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html">White House Briefing</a> columnist Dan Froomkin (background <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ankush-khardori/wapos-wobbly-balancing-a_b_17786.html">here</a>). Debate about whether he had any business doing so <a href="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/washpostblog/2006/03/ben_domenech_resigns.html">was cut short</a> by the discovery that the young buck was a massive plagiarist, with examples of his lifted prose found <a href="http://atrios.blogspot.com/2006_03_19_atrios_archive.html#114315452294404865">here</a>...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:46:00-04:00</date_published>
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