The WaPo's Howard Kurtz reports that NYT style section reporter Warren St. John got Jayson Blaired by a German reporter ("Malte Lehming, Washington correspondent for the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel") who reprinted, almost verbatim, the lead paragraph of St. John's recent piece on "metrosexuals." Aside from the obvious ethical transgressions, you have to wonder how stupid one has to be to plagiarize a front-of-the-section article in one of the most widely read newspapers in the world.
Where candidates meet the pressure [WaPo]