Anyone see Leopold's wikipedia entry?

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Controversy

In 2002, Salon.com retracted an article by Leopold which had implicated Bush administration official Thomas White in the Enron scandal after it could not verify that the contents of the article were accurate. Afterwards, Leopold and Salon.com's editor engaged in an online debate over the incident with Leopold sticking to his story and the Salon.com editor accusing Leopold of a separate plagiarism incident. <1> <2>

Prior to writing News Junkie, Mr. Leopold had written a book entitled Off the Record. The book's release was permanently cancelled, however, following legal threats from one of the subjects of the book.<3> In that book, Mr. Leopold planned to reveal many secrets of his life as a journalist such as a prior drug addiction, bouts with mental illness and suicide attempts, breaking journalistic rules, and lying to employers about a criminal conviction. <4>

On May 13th, 2006, Mr. Leopold falsely proclaimed the indictment of Karl Rove had taken place. The incident made waves online when Will Pitt echoed the conjecture on a progressive website to thousands of gullible partisans. However, it quickly became apparent that the story was fabricated.


This doesn't sound like a guy to put much credibility in I'm sad to say.