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• Maureen Dowd is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for the New York Times.NY Times: Maureen Dowd Columnist Profile

  On May 17, 2009, Dowd admitted that she inadvertently plagiarized a portion of a blog by Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall. The column in question appeared in Dowd's NY Times column entitled Cheney, Master of Pain on May 17, 2009. Dowd told Huffington Post that the NY Times will correct her column online in order to give the appropriate credit to Marshall and that a correction will run in the May 18, 2009 edition of the newspaper.Huffington Post: Maureen Dowd Admits... (May 17, 2009)

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: January 14, 1952 in Washington D.C.
  2. 1973: Graduated from Catholic University with a B.A. degree in English literatureNY Times: Maureen Dowd Columnist Profile
  3. 1999: Won a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentaryNY Times: Maureen Dowd Columnist Profile
  4. 1995: Became a columnist on the New York Times Op-Ed pageNY Times: Maureen Dowd Columnist Profile
  5. 1986: Named a correspondent in the New York Times Washington bureauNY Times: Maureen Dowd Columnist Profile
  6. 1983: Joined the New York Times as a metropolitan reporterNY Times: Maureen Dowd Columnist Profile
  7. 1981: The Washington Star folded and she went to work for Time magazineNY Times: Maureen Dowd Columnist Profile
  8. While at The Washington Star she worked as a sports columnist, metropolitan reporter and feature writerNY Times: Maureen Dowd Columnist Profile
  9. 1974: Began her journalism career as an editorial assistant for The Washington StarNY Times: Maureen Dowd Columnist Profile
  10. Author of two books, Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (Putnam, 2004) and Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide (Putnam, 2005)

• Plagiarism

  On May 17, 2009, Maureen Dowd said that she inadvertently plagiarized a portion of a blog post by Josh Marshall. According to Dowd, she had never read Marshall's May 14, 2009 post in the Talking Points Memo. Dowd told the Huffington Post that a friend of hers emailed her the phrase in question without mentioning the origin of the phrase. Dowd's column, with the plagiarized phrase, Cheney, Master of Pain appeared in the May 17, 2009 edition of the New York Times. Dowd later apologized for her error and corrections were made for both online and print copies of her piece.Huffington Post: Maureen Dowd Admits... (May 17, 2009)

• Plagiarized Phrase

  As appeared in Dowd's New York Times article on May 17, 2009: "More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when the Bush crowd was looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq."Huffington Post: Maureen Dowd Admits... (May 17, 2009)

  As appeared in Josh Marshall's Talking Point Memo on May 14, 2009: "More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when we were looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq."Huffington Post: Maureen Dowd Admits... (May 17, 2009)

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