From Slate: Thank the self-proclaimed narcissism of Slate editor-at-large Jack Shafer for this amusing tidbit. While scanning Google News Alerts mentioning his name, Shafer noticed that practically the same paragraph appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, citing him as a prominent media critic calling for the New York Times to own up to its pre-war reporting mistakes. To make a long story short, the Los Angeles Times ended up running a correction apologizing for an editor's "accidental" lifting of the Post paragraph in the midst of searching for background info. But Shafer is skeptical. Is the lifting of text ever truly an accident? If you want a good laugh, read the entire piece.

Source: Slate