Salon reporting:
During his long career, Arnaud de Borchgrave, a one-time Newsweek
correspondent and editor, has earned his share of laurels. Fellow
journalist Theodore H. White has called him one of “America’s great
foreign correspondents.” “In a job that requires bluff and bravado, he
has outrun the best of them,” Esquire gushed in a lengthy profile, which
is quoted in de Borchgrave’s official bio. Along the way, he has also
racked up some fancy titles, including director of the transnational
threats project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
These days, though, de Borchgrave is involved in some less
praiseworthy pursuits. Alongside his other activities, the veteran
newsman is a columnist for the Washington Times, the influential
conservative broadsheet, where he once served as editor in chief. And in
a handful of columns over the last year he has lifted passages
verbatim, or nearly verbatim, from the Internet and other sources,
without attribution — a fact the Washington Times’ leadership tried to
sweep under the rug, according to insiders at the paper...
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/17/coverup_at_washington_times/
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