Is prolific New York Times golden boy Sewell Chan hiding something in his trash? Like maybe comments critical to his CityRoom blog posts? According to one of his readers, who blogs over at Young Manhattanite, Chan "pretty much cribbed entirely" his post today about MetroCard makeovers from design blog A Brief Message. The blog just happens to be run by Times' design director Khoi Vihn, not that you'd know from reading his post, since Chan credited the site's operation to someone else. Whoops! When his reader aimed to correct Chan in an online comment, the Times superstar allegedly hastily updated the post and squelched the critical comment without publishing it. Maybe he thought no one would notice he'd ever been wrong in the first place?

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