{"id":45318,"date":"2014-07-27T07:40:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T07:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/buzzfeed_fires_benny_johnson_for_plagiarism\/"},"modified":"2014-07-27T07:40:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T07:40:22","slug":"buzzfeed_fires_benny_johnson_for_plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45318","title":{"rendered":"(W. Post) Buzzfeed fires Benny Johnson for plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buzzfeed, the cheeky Web site that has soared in popularity with a mix of throwaway lists and hard-news reporting, has owned up to an ethical breach as old as journalism itself.<\/p>\n<p>In an apology published late Friday night, editor Ben Smith acknowledged that one of the site\u2019s most prolific writers, Benny Johnson, had plagiarized the work of others 40 times in some 500 articles and posts. Johnson has been fired, Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s plagiarism began coming to light on Wednesday after Twitter users and a blog called \u201cOur Bad Media\u201d\u009d began reporting instances in which he took other\u2019s work without crediting his sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/buzzfeed-fires-benny-johnson-for-plagiarism\/2014\/07\/26\/64abe9d2-1484-11e4-98ee-daea85133bc9_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buzzfeed, the cheeky Web site that has soared in popularity with a mix of throwaway lists and hard-news reporting, has owned up to an ethical breach as old as journalism itself. In an apology published late Friday night, editor Ben<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45318\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,433,94,168,89,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-media","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}