As Slate’s Jody Rosen recently discovered, the Montgomery County Bulletin, a Texas alt-weekly with circulation 20,000, has since 2005 been plagiarizing articles from sources like Salon, Rolling Stone and the Guardian. And now, its Web site is down:
More interesting to ponder: What will it run next week, now that its cribbing style has been outed?
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Dallas paper fails to connect industry influence to overmedication among foster children
CJR chats with new Knight, MIT director Phil Hilts
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As prices soar, U.S. looks for scapegoats; UBS ready to roll over; Jimmy Cayne, pariah; Rachael Ray, jihadi; etc.
New quarterly bucks industry trend, exudes smart idealism
Newspaper companies fork over hundreds of millions a year—and for what?
Americans are working fewer, but not by choice; cuts on Wall Street; jobless ranks swell; etc.
Brad Stenger on the intersection of the press and computer science
In CJR's a.m. guide to the business press: Grim tidings on housing; WP says a veto threatened on bailouts; 50 bank failures? etc. etc.
Pause in the panic; the Times on useless insurance; more bad news for a fallen titan, etc.
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