This is an ironic statement from Rupert Murdoch, considering the Wall Street Journal just pulled an article for stealing content from other publications: "Some rewrite, at times without attribution, the news stories of expensive and distinguished journalists who invested days, weeks or even months in their stories—all under the tattered veil of 'fair use.'"

Quoted: Rupert Murdoch writes in The Wall Street Journal that government subsidies and bailouts of newspapers are a greater threat than digital technology. The news industry must remain free, independent and competitive.

A good analysis of what's wrong with WSJ's response here...

Quoted: The Wall Street Journal’s “Note to Readers” discloses that Sarika’s column, “’Homeward Bound,’ about H-1B visa holders returning to India” contained work from the Washington Post, Little India, India Today and San Francisco magazine.

Our response to the Mona Sarika incident...

Quoted: On December 3, we found out that we'd been published in the Wall Street Journal. Well, sort of. Many of our words made it into an online column -- but our names were nowhere to be found.

The plot thickens. Turns out she made up sources for Foreign Policy. How could this even happen to this extent? I wonder if this is even her real name? There's not much info about her on the Web ... no affiliations.

Quoted: The scandal surrounding the writer Mona Sarika continues to unfold after the Wall Street Journal removed an article she wrote.

Looks like the woman who stole the piece Amy and I wrote has a history of plagiarism...

Quoted: The WSJ isn't the only place that writer Mona Sarika plagiarized in her columns.

Oh my god, parts of the article I co-wrote were plagiarized in this WSJ piece!

Quoted: The Wall Street Journal has scrubbed an article from its website after learning that it was plagiarized from several sources. "A Nov. 10 "New Global Indian" online column by New York City freelance writer Mona Sarika has been found to contain information that was plagiarized from several publications, including the Washington Post, Little India, India Today and San Francisco magazine," a notice to readers now reads where the column once lived.

In other depressing news...

Quoted: The Washington Post is closing its last U.S. bureaus outside the nation's capital as the money-losing newspaper retrenches to focus on politics and local news.

Sad... Loved his language columns in the NYT Magazine.

Quoted: William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times, dies at a hospice.

Damn, go Bill!

Quoted: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has pardoned two jailed American journalists and ordered their release after an unannounced meeting with former President Bill Clinton, state media  said.