HARTFORD, Conn. — A small, family-owned Connecticut newspaper sued the state's largest newspaper Thursday, saying it repeatedly plagiarized stor...
Chad Fitzgerald | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment
Regina Kimbell sued Chris Rock last week, claiming that Rock's new documentary about black hair, Good Hair, copies her 2006 documentary My Nappy Roots.
Brandon Mendelson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy
After Dudemeister suffocated my belief in the value of this degree, the professor and the department gathered for the funeral.
Editor And Publisher | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media
COLORADO SPRINGS The Colorado Springs Gazette says it has dismissed an intern after concluding that four of her stories published over the last month ...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — The author of a new book about the wisdom of free products on the Web has acknowledged taking some liberties in his own work. Chris ...
AP | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media
BOSTON — Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a co-host of ABC's "The View," has been accused of plagiarism. A lawsuit in federal court in Massachusetts alleg...
AP | JENNIFER QUINN | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media
LONDON — The publisher of the wildly popular and very profitable "Harry Potter" books says it intends to fight a lawsuit alleging that author J....
Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media
Dowd showed us that the media, in its progression from establishment to grass root, from paper to Apple, has reached the Dowd Nexus and is now irretrievably past the point of no return.
Marcel Pacatte | Posted 06.19.2009 | Media
Plagiarism is still plagiarism no matter the source from which the words are stolen.
Lionel Beehner | Posted 06.19.2009 | Media
Maureen Dowd plagiarized. Goodness gracious, let's take her out back to the woodshed and make her repent. Wait, let's not. We all plagiarize.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media
Folks, if you hear just one interview with Department of Transportation Secretay Ray LaHood conducted as the secretary made his way by car to Peoria, ...
John McQuaid | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media
Assuming Dowd's explanation is true, and she's soliciting input from friends and cutting and pasting it into columns, that's worse in some ways than cribbing from published work.
David Wild | Posted 06.04.2009 | Entertainment
I would like to take the opportunity to claim that I wrote Coldplay's "Viva La Vida." Rather than waste any time haggling and trying to figure out who's actually right here, why don't we all just split the royalties?
Matt Mendelsohn | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media
The Times called and I panicked a bit. All I can say now is that I have told the story verbally so many times over the years and then, along the way, internalized it as my own experience.
The Times Online | Tom Baldwin | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
When Joe Biden takes the stage in Denver today to tell America why he should be vice-president, his speech will steer clear of echoing any Welsh lyric...
Rob Kall | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics
McCain's problem is he and Cindy have no one to vet the less than competent people running the campaign -- and both let their staff put things into their mouths a bit too easily.
Slate | Jody Rosen | Posted 09.06.2008 | Media
The saga began in the classical manner: with an e-mail about Jimmy Buffett. Several weeks ago, I received a note from a Slate reader drawing my attent...
Laurie Kilmartin | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media
On June 21, Crowley began tearing apart the MoveOn "Alex" ad and she played 23/6's parody as she went to commercial, without crediting us. Annoying. When she came back from commercial, she played our parody again but this time she claimed she created it.
David Weiner | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
Cindy McCain is up to her old tricks. Her recipe for oatmeal-butterscotch cookies featured in the latest issue of Family Circle magazine is identical to a recipe on Hersheys.com.
David Weiner | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
Cindy McCain joked that the intern who stole the recipes from the Food Network was "now in Betty Crocker boot camp."
David Weiner | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
It seems that Cindy McCain, John McCain's perfect, blonde beer-baroness wife is about to find herself painted as the latest example of plagiarism on the campaign trail.
Slate | Jack Shafer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The hell wrought on Argentina by the illicit drug "paco" has already become a journalistic staple. The Christian Science Monitor visited the topic on ...
The New Republic | David Kusnet | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
We asked former Bill Clinton speechwriter David Kusnet if today's plagiarism accusations against Barack Obama were justified. In his mind, was what Ob...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
If you remember, coming out of the Potomac Primaries, the Clinton campaign promised an increase focus on specifics over speeches, which is why they ha...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
A sports reporter who admitted fabricating stories has been fired for breaching The News Leader's journalistic ethics policies, executive editor Dave ...
AP | STEPHANIE REITZ | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media