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    Alaska Miller: College kids are funny. more »
    Mo MoDo: Plagiarism lesson: Write for years, get a NYT column, win a Pulitzer and THEN start stealing from people. Kids today just don't want to put in the time. more »
    eeeradicator: She is a second year college student, and I am supposed to be surprised that she cheats on assignments? Not so much. What happened to that other young... more »
    Pope John Peeps II: That Talese interview sounds really, really made up. Like... seriously made up. more »
    robrob9: Really? A whole post dedicated to the dismissal of an intern -- intern -- at some middling newspaper in Colorado. Really? And she's worthy of national... more »
    TedSez: One of the passages she stole was from a writer's first-person account of what it was like when his own daughter died. That's a level of wrongness bey... more »
    Richard Lawson: Gainesville and Colorado Springs? I'd start plagiarizing too if meant getting the hell out of those burgs. more »
    Satyrica: Pore, not pour. more »
    jorel845: Amazing how your digital footprint doesn't quite expire in equal measures. She definitely can write, but the underwear bit is pathetic. Her savy is qu... more »
    raincoaster: Have you plugged the Talese interview into Google and seen if it matches up with a 10-year-old Playgirl interview with Tom Wolfe or something? more »
    Tremonius: Maybe they're the same homeless, who winter in Colorado Springs. Anyway, it's not Grand Theft, mere shoplifting. more »
  • #scandal

    Small Town Newspaper Intern Canned For Plagiarizing New York Times

    An intern at the Colorado Springs Gazette has been fired for lifting passages from the New York Times and placing them in stories she wrote for the newspaper. More »