New York Times Again in Copycat Dog House

TheArgentinePost.com provides compelling evidence that a writer at the New York Times, when writing about expatriate artists in Buenos Aires, made overly liberal use of a research resource: a January 15, 2007 Newsweek story on the same topic. I won't even try to start covering the ground, as the analysis that the Argentine Post did is long, thorough, and, in addition, reported. Sadly, even though there was significant prior evidence of the writer purloining the work of others, the NYT travel editor eventually claimed that there "was no plagiarism at work." No, just some pretty amazing coincidences, one after the other.