WP: Some Readers See Red Over Post.com's New Blogger

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/23/AR2006032301991_pf.html

The Washington Post Co.'s Web operation has touched off an online furor by hiring as a blogger a 24-year-old former Bush administration aide who co-founded a conservative site and recently referred to Coretta Scott King as a "communist."

Ben Domenech, an editor at the conservative Regnery Publishing, said he regrets the King reference, which he insists was tongue-in-cheek, and that the reaction to his new "Red America" blog is "a little meaner" than he expected.

More than 1,000 people and a Democratic member of Congress have sent the newspaper letters of complaint. The decision to hire Domenech was made by Washingtonpost.com, an Arlington-based division that works with the newspaper but is editorially independent.

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Late yesterday, the liberal Web sites Daily Kos and Atrios posted examples of what appeared to be instances of plagiarism from Domenech's writing at the William & Mary student paper. Three sentences of a 1999 Domenech review of a Martin Scorsese film were identical to a review in Salon magazine, and several sentences in Domenech's piece on a James Bond movie closely resembled one in the Internet Movie Database. Domenech said he needed to research the examples but that he never used material without attribution and had complained about a college editor improperly adding language to some of his articles.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/3/24/13724/1544

LOL!!! Typical Repub: "Domenech said he needed to research the examples but that he never used material without attribution and had complained about a college editor improperly adding language to some of his articles."

It was the editor!!! He added plagiarized content to my articles!!! I didn't do it!!!

his failings, just like Shrub and Rummy. It wasn't me, it was my damn librul editor!

"had complained about a college editor improperly adding language..."

Imagine that, he didn't do it. How original.

Liberals, the media, and a college professor. That's got to make Sean Insanity proud.

I think this should be a warning to ALL young political wannabes and up-and-comers...

MIND YOUR P'S AND Q'S

Yo, Domenech - you deserve every second of grief that you get over this. You're 24 years old, you've been taught since kindergarten that stealing is wrong, cheating isn't fair, and that cheaters never prosper. You have no way to explain yourself other than that you're a lazy, incurious, power-hungry punk who thought that "Nobody will ever know."

Wake up, kid. Do your own damn work.

Regnery Publishing is owned by William Regnery II, who publishes white-supremacist KKK trash and great authors (cough, cough) such as Ann Coulter and G. Gordon Liddy. They also published the Swift Boat smear on John Kerry…WoPo has sunk all the way to the bottom.

Southern Poverty Law Center has a page on it’s Intelligence Report on William Regnery II.



http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=479

right now????

WOW

Printing out for further reading. Daming very very damning. I didn't know this about Regnery Publishing .

underpants!

I ran into Tom Phillips' background a couple of months ago and was astounded at the depth and breadth of the scope of Regnery also.

Enjoy your reading!

:toast:

I have to wonder if bringing in a right-wing blogger was really their idea.

:headbang:
rocknation

Who cares if she or her husband were perhaps Communist Party associates or members? A large number of the most important civil rights leaders were. That doesn't tarnish the civil rights movement, but brings credit to the communists for having the fortitude to do the right thing when liberals would not.

http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2006/3/23/181857/404/136#c136

I think that was after he left school.

That college paper has a new editorial about him:

Late Thursday evening, several widely-read internet weblogs reported that a former College student plagiarized at least two articles while he worked as a writer for The Flat Hat. According to the websites Daily Kos and Atrios, phrases and full sentances of these articles were similar, and in some cases identical, to those of other authors. Ben Domenech, a student who enrolled in the College in 1999, is currently a blogger with Washingtonpost.com. While Domenech deserves the benefit of the doubt until all of the facts are known, if true, his actions would be deeply offensive to us as journalists and as students.

http://flathat.wm.edu/story.php?issue=2006-03-24&type=1&aid=1

After her death the Post became Republican-friendly.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002236016

While the Washingtonpost.com continues to defend its latest blog hire--conservative Ben Domenech--despite several examples of apparent plagiarism in his writings, his old college paper is expressing strong concern.

Most of the plagiarism examples that have surfaced so far come from his days at the College of William & Mary's weekly student newspaper The Flat Hat.

Today, on its Web site, The Flat Hat posted a lengthy staff editorial, titled "Poison of plagiarism." It opens:

"Late Thursday evening, several widely-read internet weblogs reported that a former College student plagiarized at least two articles while he worked as a writer for The Flat Hat. According to the websites Daily Kos and Atrios, phrases and full sentances of these articles were similar, and in some cases identical, to those of other authors. Ben Domenech, a student who enrolled in the College in 1999, is currently a blogger with Washingtonpost.com. While Domenech deserves the benefit of the doubt until all of the facts are known, if true, his actions would be deeply offensive to us as journalists and as students.

http://flathat.wm.edu/story.php?issue=2006-03-24&type=1&aid=1

Staff Editorial: Poison of plagiarism

Late Thursday evening, several widely-read internet weblogs reported that a former College student plagiarized at least two articles while he worked as a writer for The Flat Hat. According to the websites Daily Kos and Atrios, phrases and full sentances of these articles were similar, and in some cases identical, to those of other authors. Ben Domenech, a student who enrolled in the College in 1999, is currently a blogger with Washingtonpost.com. While Domenech deserves the benefit of the doubt until all of the facts are known, if true, his actions would be deeply offensive to us as journalists and as students.

No one presently involved with the paper has ever worked with Domenech. We are an entirely student-run newspaper with a completely new staff every four years. However, as the current stewards of our campus newspaper, we feel this is an opportunity to comment on plagiarism’s corrosive effect on The Flat Hat, the College and individual reputations.

As a newsaper, we necessarily place a great amount of trust in our writers, as the number and variety of potential sources make it impossible for us to catch every instance of plagiarism. If a copied article that has fallen through the cracks comes to our attention, we strive to respond in a way that is fair to the writer and forthcoming to our readers. The Flat Hat has spent over 95 years building an honest relationship with you, the reader. We would never allow one writer to ruin our good name.

The College’s honor code, the oldest in the country, is one of our most cherished traditions. It ensures our community of trust, allowing us to enjoy un-proctored exams and the ability to leave our personal belongings without fear of theft. It creates an environment where every student succeeds or fails on his or her own merit. It increases the value of every College diploma by guaranteeing the integrity of our academic environment. The College’s reputation relies upon its honor just as much as it does its academic excellence. As prospective students, we were drawn by the promise of becoming a part of this proud tradition. We have a responsibility to uphold this tradition, both during and after our time here. We aim to live by the honor code as individuals and as a publication. This oath, taken by every freshman who walks through the doors of the Wren Building, is essential to who we are. Plagiarism, the theft of ideas, deeply undermines this trust.

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Editorial Board:

Joshua Pinkerton, Editor-in-Chief
Ashley Baird, Managing Editor -- Max Fisher, Executive Editor
Per Hoel, Business Manager -- Andy Zahn, News Editor
Chase Johnson, Variety Editor -- Louis Malick, Sports Editor
Alice Hahn, Reviews Editor -- Natalie Ronollo, Opinions Editor

Hah, The Flat Head journalists have more integrity than the Repub brown-nosing WP.

for the fetid breeding ground of rabid righties that it has been for many, many years. It's just Liberty U. with a different flavor of sanctimony.

What a shame. Such a beautiful campus. A friend just moved to Wmsburg and was considering the school for his kids. Oops. It won't happen if it's full of wingnuts.

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Sam didn't cite his news source, tho.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/washpostblog /

:bounce:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=743932&mesg_id=743932

..nice that folks on the Internet did Jim Brady's job of background checking this yahoo and his "writing" credentials.

*a minor plagarism of his quote re Gore. I shall now resign.