If there were a person who could speak for digital news media as a whole, I imagine that person would presently be delivering an epic mea culpa to readers everywhere. The last six months, to put it charitably, have been rough for this industry. And while the websites that ...read more

At long last, some four days after it was revealed that atheist writer C.J. Werleman had plagiarized in nearly 20 of his articles for Alternet and Salon, the latter website has finally acknowledged it. Bear in mind, Alternet's response to the plagiarism revelations was to ...read more

Updates below It was not my intention to write more about the allegations of plagiarism swirling around atheist writer C.J. Werleman. This is partly because I didn't wish to pile on, and partly because I imagined that Werleman would admit wrongdoing and offer an earnest ...read more