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New York Times, News Kleptomaniac?

New York Observer's Kat Stoeffel cites the possibility of "journalistic kleptomania" by The New York Times, detailing several instances where the paper gave cursory credit to another news organization that pioneered reporting on a story.

For example, a recent expose of "the latest hot-button environmental issue -- hydraulic fracturing," finally gave nonprofit newsroom ProPublica its due for first breaking the story  -- but "20-odd paragraphs in[to the Times'] own story," which Stoeffel says is "approximately 18 deeper than the average Sunday Times reader will plunge."

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