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I plagiarallegiance to the flag..

Friday, while working on a page for Sunday, I came across a columnist that took credit for an internet list that was not his.

Saturday, my managing editor told his boss about it.

Sunday, the editor in chief looked up the internet list on his own, and e-mailed the guy in what can only be described as a near-confrontational tone (if capitulatory is near-confrontational).

Monday, he wrote back, denying everything, in essence becoming a liar and a thief.
Monday night, my boss’s boss came up to me and told me that I had done good work in catching him, but as the columnist in question was a 75-year-old retired journalist who had worked for UPI and the Dever Post and had been a weekly columnist for us for 12 years, he wouldn’t be fired.

The man steals entire works, then gets away with it with not even a slap on the wrist. Can you believe that?

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