View source for 2014/06/12/The Troubling Case of Chris Hedges

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* '''when''': [[when posted::2014/06/12]] ([[date posted::2014/06/12]])
* '''author''': [[author::Christopher Ketcham]]
* '''source''': [[source::New Republic]]
* '''topics''': [[topic::Chris Hedges]] [[topic::plagiarism]] [[topic::Harper's Magazine]] [[topic::Philadelphia Inquirer]] [[topic::TruthDig]]
* '''link''': [[URL::http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118114/chris-hedges-pulitzer-winner-lefty-hero-plagiarist]]
* '''title''': [[title::The Troubling Case of Chris Hedges]]
* '''summary''': [[Summary::{{fmt/quote|The trouble began when Ross passed the piece along to the fact-checker assigned to the story. As Ross and the fact-checker began working through the material, they discovered that sections of [[Chris Hedges|Hedges]]'s draft appeared to have been [[plagiarism|lifted directly]] from the work of a ''[[Philadelphia Inquirer]]'' reporter named Matt Katz, who in 2009 had published a four-part series on social and political dysfunction in Camden.}}]]