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News > (Story Incorrect; See Below) NY Times Busted for Plagiarizing Wikipedia Mistake

The New York Times' latest mistake. First they plagiarized a Wikipedia entry word-for-word without attribution. Then they failed to check the information, which turned out to be wrong. Bad, bad, bad. Via El Pundito.

UPDATE: In comments, Brian Carnell informs me - in the most non-belligerent, non-name-calling, non-drunk way possible - that the plagiarism happened the other way round. So instead of this being a case of someone copying and pasting from an encyclopedia (dog bites man), it was a case of an encyclopedia copying and pasting from someone (man bites dog).

It seemed unlikely that the Wikipedia entry would be updated the very same day the article appeared in the NY Times (and more likely that the NY Times lifted an existing entry), but it appears that's exactly what happened. So, mea culpa and apologies to the NY Times.