Blogger Accused of Plagiarism Resigns Blog Post
James Rainey
Los Angeles Times
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A conservative blogger on the Washington Post's Web site resigned Friday following allegations that he repeatedly had plagiarized material that appeared under his byline in earlier writings.
Washingtonpost.com hired Ben Domenech just three days earlier to widen the ideological spectrum of its online commentary. But liberal bloggers objected that he was unqualified and extreme -- for example, labeling civil rights icon Coretta Scott King a "communist."
His rocky start at the Web site became untenable when his online critics produced evidence that he had lifted material for a movie review he wrote for National Review Online and for commentaries he wrote for his student paper at the College of William & Mary, the editor of the site said.
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Post.com Blogger Quits Amid Furor
Web pulls apart a web
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The furor over the rise and demise of the 24-year-old blogger made "Ben Domenech" the most-searched term on the Web Friday, according to the tracking firm Technorati.com.Washintonpost.com executive editor Jim Brady said that, in speaking to his superiors at the Washington Post Co., which controls both the paper and the Web site, "I apologized for any embarrassment that we caused for the company as a whole. I have to take the heat for that, and I am willing to do that."
The blogger "Oregon Guy" noted that Domenech's language in an essay about parties for his college paper mirrored that of humorist P.J. O'Rourke in his book "Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People."
Mar 24, 2006
James Rainey
Los Angeles Times
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A conservative blogger on the Washington Post's Web site resigned Friday following allegations that he repeatedly had plagiarized material that appeared under his byline in earlier writings.
Washingtonpost.com hired Ben Domenech just three days earlier to widen the ideological spectrum of its online commentary. But liberal bloggers objected that he was unqualified and extreme -- for example, labeling civil rights icon Coretta Scott King a "communist."
His rocky start at the Web site became untenable when his online critics produced evidence that he had lifted material for a movie review he wrote for National Review Online and for commentaries he wrote for his student paper at the College of William & Mary, the editor of the site said.
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See Also:
Post.com Blogger Quits Amid Furor
Web pulls apart a web
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The furor over the rise and demise of the 24-year-old blogger made "Ben Domenech" the most-searched term on the Web Friday, according to the tracking firm Technorati.com.Washintonpost.com executive editor Jim Brady said that, in speaking to his superiors at the Washington Post Co., which controls both the paper and the Web site, "I apologized for any embarrassment that we caused for the company as a whole. I have to take the heat for that, and I am willing to do that."
The blogger "Oregon Guy" noted that Domenech's language in an essay about parties for his college paper mirrored that of humorist P.J. O'Rourke in his book "Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People."
Mar 24, 2006
