NYT/AP: Huffington Apologizes for Clooney Blog

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Huffington Apologizes for Clooney Blog
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 21, 2006

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Commentator Ariana Huffington apologized to readers for a blog posted on her Web site on March 13 that was attributed to actor George Clooney but was actually a compilation of his views.

Huffington acknowledged on her Web site Saturday that she was ''blinded'' to the issue of assembling a blog in which the source of the material wasn't clear, as was the case with Clooney.

''I now realize that I made a big mistake in posting a blog without clearly identifying that the material in it didn't originate as a blog post, but was pieced together from previous interviews,'' she wrote. ''I'm sorry I didn't see this earlier.''

Last week, Clooney issued a statement denying he wrote the blog, saying he only gave Huffington permission to use a compilation of his critiques of the Iraq war from interviews with Larry King and London's The Guardian.

On Monday, Huffington said she considered the misunderstanding a ''major lesson learned'' and would put future snippets from interviews or conversations into her own blog....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-People-Clooney-Huffington.html