You mean you discovered a man lying about being black might be dishonest? Funny that…
Via Politico:
A Daily News editor was fired after the paper found that the editor had edited columns by senior justice writer Shaun King to remove attribution to other news sources.
“We have discovered today that over the course of the past few months one of our editors has made a series of egregious and inexplicable errors,” Daily News executive editor Jim Rich said in a statement. “On at least three separate occasions, the editor deleted attribution that made it appear passages from Shaun King’s columns were not properly credited. These mistakes are unacceptable and the editor in question has been fired.”
Rich did not identify the editor.
On Tuesday, Daily Beast executive editor Noah Shachtman accused King of plagiarizing two paragraphs from the Daily Beast in his latest column. King and the News blamed the plagiarism on an “editor’s error.”
Update:
Daily Beast broke the story, because it was their story that appeared to have been plagiarized. But apparently, Chelsea was behind it all, at least according to Shaun.
