Boston Phoenix | Nieman Watchdog
Adam Reilly suggests a sidebar or editor's note to acknowledge significant prior work on the subject in question, and explain how the new story went further. "The way news is consumed today, any news outlet that takes a stingy approach toward crediting the competition, especially on a major story like Walter Reed, risks looking absurd," he writes. Reilly asks Post ombudsman
Deborah Howell about the paper's failure to acknowledge Salon's earlier stories on Walter Reed. The Post's material was original and only overlapped slightly with Salon's, she says. || Related
Saul Friedman column.
