Fox News commentator Juan Williams has found himself accused of plagiarism. Salon’s Alex Seitz-Wald reported Thursday that Williams copied, without attribution, material from a Center for American Progress report in a recent column:
In a phone interview Thursday evening, Williams pinned the blame on a researcher who he described as a “young man.”
“I was writing a column about the immigration debate and had my researcher look around to see what data existed to pump up this argument and he sent back what I thought were his words and summaries of the data,” Williams told Salon. “I had never seen the CAP report myself, so I didn’t know that the young man had in fact not summarized the data but had taken some of the language from the CAP
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