Dowd's use of ghostwriters?

Maureen Dowd used material from a blog without attribution to ANYONE, and later said she got it from a friend.


The CSMonitor via Politico on the Dowd plagiarism business:

But that raised other issues about whether it’s common practice for Dowd to use entire passages from friends in her column without attribution. And when I sent a follow-up email about this to Dowd, she didn’t respond. …