NATIONAL BRIEFING / NEW YORK
Times Wire Reports
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has admitted using a paragraph virtually word for word from a liberal blogger without attribution.
Dowd acknowledged the similarity in an e-mail to the Huffington Post, the website reported. The Times corrected her column online to credit the material to Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall.
The paper is expected to issue a formal correction today.
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