Juan Williams, journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel, also writes for several newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Alex Seitz-Wald of Salon recently outed Williams about his February 18 th column for The Hill, titled "Dispenspensing with a new 'dagger' against immigration reform. The reporter found passages that were lifted from a publication of The Center for American Progress. After the discovery of the plagiarism, The Hill affixed a note to the bottom of the column stating "was revised on March 2, 2013, to include previously-omitted attribution to the Center for American Progress.”
After a further review of Williams' archives, Hugh Gurdon, editor-in-chief of The Hill, stated "There is nothing to suggest that this was anything other than an isolated incident".
Williams blamed his research staff for the plagiarism, which is not unusual. He told Salon:
I was writing a column about the immigration debate and had my researcher look around to see what data existed to pump up this argument and he sent back what I thought were his words and summaries of the data. I had never seen the CAP report myself, so I didn’t know that the young man had in fact not summarized the data but had taken some of the language from the CAP report.
If this is true, why was the researcher not included in the credits?
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