It hasn't been a great few weeks for what internet bloggers call, with withering disdain, the ‘mainstream media’.
First there was the disgrace of Johann Hari, the star columnist with The Independent, who has admitted plagiarism allegations and has been sent off to expiate his sins on a journalism training course.
Hari has also admitted attacking his critics, behind the cover of a pseudonym, by editing their Wikipedia entries; he maliciously called one anti-Semitic and homophobic and another a drunk.
Then there's the case of Dr Steven King, the former personal adviser to David Trimble, whose column with the Irish Examiner has been discontinued following allegations of plagiarism. Full story...
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First there was the disgrace of Johann Hari, the star columnist with The Independent, who has admitted plagiarism allegations and has been sent off to expiate his sins on a journalism training course.
Hari has also admitted attacking his critics, behind the cover of a pseudonym, by editing their Wikipedia entries; he maliciously called one anti-Semitic and homophobic and another a drunk.
Then there's the case of Dr Steven King, the former personal adviser to David Trimble, whose column with the Irish Examiner has been discontinued following allegations of plagiarism. Full story...
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