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Pushing Pause?

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August 7, 2008

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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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Jane Kim is a writer in New York.