skippy the bush kangaroo: credit where credit is due

Saturday, March 25, 2006

credit where credit is due

and the nytimes credits the daily kos with providing evidence that lead to dommie darko's resignation:

but by late thursday, the bloggers had found instances of what appeared to be plagiarism, including an article by mr. domenech in the new york press that contained passages resembling an article that ran on the front page of the washington post.

evidence of one instance of plagiarism first surfaced on the liberal blog daily kos on thursday. a comment posted on the blog said a passage from an article by mr. domenech was nearly identical to a chapter from p. j. o'rourke's book, "modern manners: an etiquette book for rude people."

and, in a delicious dash of salt added to dommie darko's wound, the nytimes actually got ahold of mr. o'roarke for a comment:

[domenech] explained the passage that appeared to be copied from mr. o'rourke's book by saying that mr. o'rourke gave him permission.

contacted at his home in new hampshire, mr. o'rourke said that he had never heard of mr. domenech and did not recall meeting him.

"i wouldn't want to swear in a court of law that i never met the guy, mr. o'rourke said of mr. domenech, "but i didn't give him permission to use my words under his byline, no."

oh, that's gotta hurt!

posted by skippy at 11:37 AM |