Another MSM Scandal -- They just keep coming

Howard Kurtz in the WaPo reports:

USA Today's Pentagon Reporter Resigns Under Pressure

Squitieri Accused of Plagiarism

By Howard Kurtz

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 5, 2005; 6:35 PM

A USA Today Pentagon correspondent, Tom Squitieri, resigned under pressure today after the paper learned he had lifted quotes from another newspaper for a front-page story and used several other quotes, without attribution, that were cut during the editing process.

Read the whole thing here. What's interesting is that Squitieri is falling back on the Dan Rather defense -- fake but accurate. He admits that the quotes were lifted from other stories, but that he had talked to the people who were quoted and the quotes were accurate.