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Washington Post’s GOP Blogger Accused of Plagiarism

From bendomenech.com via Salon.com

The Washington Post has been taking heavy criticism for its recent hire of conservative blogger Ben Domenech, formerly of Redstate.com. Domenech now finds himself accused of plagiarizing and of fabricating quotes.

The paper’s new 24-year-old conservative blogger apparently cribbed movie reviews while in college, and may have fabricated a Tim Russert quote more recently.

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The movie reviews he is accused of plagiarizing

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Salon.com:

Does the Washington Post intend to maintain journalistic standards in the brave new blogosphere? Or are those standards incompatible with the Post company’s ambitions for WashingtonPost.com?

Those questions arise from the Post’s hiring of Ben Domenech—best known as a founder of RedState.com, but also known as a Bush appointee, and the son of a Bush appointee, and as a contributor to National Review Online—to write a daily blog on the newspaper’s Web site. That decision by Post management has provoked much speculation about its motive for employing Domenech. Many observers surmise that Domenech was brought on to “balance” Dan Froomkin, the popular White House Briefing blogger on WashingtonPost.com whose skepticism and wit have provoked whining from the right—and defensive reactions from certain Post reporters worried by accusations of “liberal bias” at the paper.

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By Joseppi Blauinski, March 24, 2006 at 8:18 pm #
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The Washington Post has been moving to the right for the past decade, and frankly, Scarlett, it sucks.

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By Oliver, March 24, 2006 at 7:43 pm #
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Live by the sword, die by the sword. Our Preznit use to execute kids his age when he was governor. And yet poor little Ben cries “i was only 17 when I stole the copyrighted work of another. Why should I be responsible…” (OK, a paraphrase at redstate.org).

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