Jun 09 2009
Hoping Maureen Dowd is ok
Update: She’s fine, and back at work. Glad to see, despite the unfortunate sequence of events.
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Maureen Dowd in her Sunday and Wednesday column, plagerized a blogger. This is pretty awful – bloggers often channel the news, but rarely get credit for doing so… so outright plagerism stings… (and gets widely reported, and quickly noticed.)
The next week, she published this story panning President Obama: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/opinion/20dowd.html. It was a piece unworthy of Maureen, in my opinion, but clearly “red meat” for a certain sector of the liberal blogosphere. I read it with utter distaste, and concluded that Maureen had dug in a little deeper to placate her liberal readers – the ones most likely offended by her plagerism.
Since then, nothing. No new articles from MoDo. I’ve written here on this blog of my appreciation for Maureen, but the silence since that last essay doesn’t sit well with me. It feels like she, having not drawn the liberal applause for the manipulative piece, has dropped off the map (or been dropped?).
I hope not. I hope she is healthy, that all is well for her, and that she is still in the NYTimes employ. Here’s wishing Madame Incorrigible well, despite my recent displeasure.
QT
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