Wednesday, July 05, 2006

"Balance" in Action:
Is Ann Coulter "Liberally Biased"?

Far from it. But assuming we can take Rupert Murdoch's New York Post at its fair-and-balanced word, the red-baiting, peroxide pundit-darling of the mainstream media "may be 'liberal' in at least one respect." As Editor & Publisher explains:

The New York Post reported Sunday that author/columnist Coulter "cribbed liberally in her latest book" and also in several of her syndicated columns, according to a plagiarism expert.

John Barrie, creator of the iThenticate plagiarism-probing system, claimed he found at least three examples of what he called "textbook plagiarism" in the new Coulter book "Godless" after he ran its text through the program.

He also discovered verbatim copying in Coulter's weekly column, which is syndicated to more than 100 newspapers by Universal.
Now, if only one of Coulter's countless, mainstream-journalist targets could muster the courage to ask her about it...

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