the miracle of cut-n-paste

[acroyear]

only provides accuracy when you cut-n-paste the primary source...

More on science reporting: tracking the spread of a story - The Panda's Thumb:

This spreading though is especially interesting as between the original press release(s), the paper itself and the blog post (and later interviews) I know which quotes and which information came from where and thus which errors or changes have come in at which stage and which media have picked them up from which other. It is noticeable therefore that one can track errors from report to report as they originate in one and then are copied to others (I tracked a spelling mistake of Tyrannosaurus as Tyrannosaurs across three generations of articles, and each time it appeared in basically the same sentence in the second paragraph of the report, each, theoretically written by a different journalist).

Maybe that chump from the NYTimes wasn't alone in plagiarism...