Sidney Blumenthal

The Slate music critic Jody Rosen has a simple question: "In purely statistical terms, do the articles in the Montgomery County Bulletin amount to the greatest plagiarism scandal in the annals of American journalism?"

You might ask: The Bulletin? What's that? Also, why is Jody Rosen participating in media reporting?

Well, the story begins like this: Mr. Rosen was tipped a few weeks ago by a reader that a Jimmy Buffett profile he wrote in 2007 had been copied and repurposed under a different byline for an alt-weekly in Texas called the Bulletin earlier this year. Mr. Rosen had never heard of it, but after a little research, he discovered why.  read more »

On more bit of reaction from the Hillary side last night:

I asked Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to the Hillary Clinton who has been a lot more visible since she lost Iowa, whether or not the win made the argument for her to put more emphasis her personality instead of leading with policy differences with her opponents.

He rejected the premise.

"I don't buy any of this," he said. "I'm not interested in this discussion. I think that policy matters and I think that who she is matters and I don't see the difference."  read more »