The blog-like news site, The Huffington Post, found itself the subject of news this week, instead of its typical role as a provider of information.
A Time article exposed one of the site’s posts as a compilation of several other articles from different news sites, bearing co-founder Arianna Huffington’s byline, without attribution for any of the [...]

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While watching an exciting Kent State University men’s basketball game last month, I couldn’t help but watch the reporters and commentators at the press table to see if they were cheering or booing along with the crowd.
Toward the end of the game, a student journalist let out a first pump, and I shook [...]

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USA Today readers ripped movie critic Claudia Puig’s review of “Watchmen” — and her track record as a critic – apart when she wrote that the film, which is based on a novel, was less-than-stellar.
Some readers commented that a critic should be familiar with the original piece and should consider the entire story in both [...]

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