I was just browsing Murray Waas' blog
Whatever Already, and I was surprised to see Waas accusing Joe Conason of plagarism. In recommending a Ted Koppel's recent NYT editorial, Waas gave the following
introduction:
Because I know that maybe more than one of the five to seven regular readers of this blog cannot afford TimesSelect, or haven't read this morning's New York Times, I reprint below in its entirety Ted Koppel's first New York Times column, as yet another act of civil disobedience, to bring crucial information to the masses. I don't know if one does hard time for violating the copyright act (one can ask such plagiarists as Ruth Shalit, Joe Conason, or Doris Kearns Goodwin about that) but I want everyone to know that I could do the 85 days in jail that Judy Miller did standing on my head!
Waas went on to post the Koppel's editorial in its entirety, but what caught my attention was that he called Conason a "plagiarist".
I tried to Google the situation, but came up empty. I am speculating that this has something to do with all of the Whitewater / Ken Starr reporting, but I don't really know. Has anyone heard about this?