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Is It A Fair Playing Field

The Washington Post hired a conservative named Ben Domenech to blog at the WAPO site. This was marked for disaster before it began. The Post is a liberal news outlet and conservatives never have a fair playing field when they work for the left. Allegations arose, not long after the blog partnership started, that Domenech committed plagiary. The accusations came from a large number of left wing bloggers and it appears that the avalanche could not be stopped. Mr. Domenech resigned before the WAPO had a chance to push him out.

Did he commit plagiarism? I don’t know. If there were allegations it would seem that the prudent thing to do would be to check it out before deciding upon a course of action. Hell, Dan Rather got more than the benefit of the doubt and it was more than a week before that was sorted out. I am sure Jason Blair from the NYT got more than a day while people looked into the allegations and I know Michael Oleskar of the Baltimore Sun had a good bit of time lapse before it was decided that he did in fact commit plagiarism.

Ben Domenech should have known that this would happen. The left does not believe in a fair playing field. Conservatives who work for leftist media outlets are not treated as well as the leftists who work at places like Fox news. Perhaps all this uproar was to take the attention away from ABC’s John Green and his display of obvious media bias.

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