Columbus Dispatch Plagiarizes Andy Borowitz

[YankeeFan]

Porowitz writes this:

New Study Finds iPad is Cure for Adultery; Owners ‘Stop Noticing Other People Altogether’

http://www.borowitzreport.com/2011/05/19/new-study-finds-ipad-is-cure-for-adultery-owners-stop-noticing-other-people-altogether/


Columbus Dispatch runs this:

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/stahler/index.html


His twitter feed has more info: http://twitter.com/#!/borowitzreport

 

[sgreenwell]

I'm kind of murky on the rules of cartoon attribution. Is it customary for political cartoons to give a hat tip to the original reports they use? Or do they just re-word things?

 

[Walter Burns]

The Dispatch is saying it's a coincidence.

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/133580/columbus-dispatch-editor-cartoon-column-similarity-appears-to-be-a-coincidence/