The Washington Post recently fired one of its bloggers after it was learned that he had plagiarized some of his earlier writings. Some are suggesting that the blogger, Ben Domenech, may have been singled out because he was a conservative with strong anti-liberal views, ideas that probably don’t sit well with the majority of the newspaper’s readership. Nevertheless Mr. Domenech did plagiarize and subsequently lost his position with the newspaper after only three days of work.

As I was surfing the ‘net to find details about the story, I discovered information about a site called Turnitin, which helps to uncover plagiarism in the writings of college and university students through a program that matches students’ works against previously written submissions that have been stored in various databases.

According to an article referencing Turnitin [nice attribution on my part, right?] companies are using this service too.

Now, if we could get each of the article directories to adopt this same practice…