Conservative Post.com Blogger Quits Amid Furor

bridgit

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Fri Mar-24-06 10:26 PM
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Conservative Post.com Blogger Quits Amid Furor

'A 24-year-old conservative blogger hired by The Washington Post Co.'s Web site resigned yesterday, three days after his debut, amid a flurry of allegations of plagiarism.

Ben Domenech, an editor with Regnery Publishing, relinquished the part-time position hours after a liberal Web site posted evidence that he had plagiarized part of a movie review he wrote for National Review Online. Previous allegations of plagiarism in Domenech's writing for the College of William & Mary student newspaper surfaced Wednesday, but the 2001 review was the first instance found since he attended the college.

While liberal bloggers objected to the fact of Domenech's hiring and his inflammatory language, such as calling Coretta Scott King a "communist"...'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/24/AR2006032401206.html?nav=rss_email/components

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waiting for hope

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Fri Mar-24-06 10:37 PM
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1. No brainer....

Edited on Fri Mar-24-06 10:41 PM by waiting for hope

since when has a conservative had any new or innovative ideas?

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bridgit

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Fri Mar-24-06 10:51 PM
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2. seems pretty much what they do...

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