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The Washington Post / Erik Wemple / Oct 26, 2020
“That’s not just any Ruth S. Barrett; it’s Ruth Shalit Barrett — the same Ruth Shalit who left Washington in the late 1990s after laying down a trail of journalistic scandal…The Atlantic byline provides yet more heft for a caveat that often accompanied Shalit stories: that plagiarism offenses don’t spell automatic doom for journalists. The scofflaws explain, they apologize, they do their time and many return to work.”
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