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Politico Reporter Resigns Over Plagiarism

The same website that brings you “anonymous sources” now finds itself axing a reporter who took content from, of all places, the New York Times. Politico says a reporter has resigned after editors determined she had plagiarized stories about transportation,

Gawker Publishes Hit List For The NYC 1%

Remember when the DLC published a “hit list” of vulnerable districts and included crosshairs over Gabrielle Giffords’s Arizona district–and then some time later Sarah Palin published a map doing the same outlining the same vulnerable districts? The media excoriated Palin,

Is Politico's Dave Catanese A Democrat Party Press Secretary?

Background research on what has been called a bizarre 16 year-old smear being tossed at prospective Republican gubernatorial candidate, Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, potentially by Democrats, turned up some interesting observations about the work of Dave Catanese over at

Politico and 'Occupy Wall Street' Push for Global Taxes

From Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid & Benjamin Johnson: Jumping on the anti-Wall Street media bandwagon, Josh Boak of Politico says Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio’s measure to tax Wall Street has “newfound momentum.” The Soros-funded Think Progress blog quickly jumped