Plagiarism

Looks the web site of the Daily Telegraph, one of the UK's oldest newspapers, might have gotten itself into a bit of a plagiarism scandal.  Today they published an off-beat little blog entry (now offline), purportedly by columnist Melissa Whitworth, but it seems that the exact same piece was published 2 days ago at MediaBistro.com.
Copying other people's content is certainly nothing new on the internet, though we tend to think of it as the act of spammers and lowlifes, not a major media company.

UPDATE:The Telegraph has removed the story in question from their website, and Melissa Whitworth has posted an apology and explanation. While the explanation is plausible, this was a case of sloppy journalism at best, and one would hope that the editors at the Telegraph consider plagiarism, even the "accidental" variety, to be more than "a small error," as Melissa describes it.