McInnis plagiarism source remains a mystery

Three weeks after The Denver Post and 7News nearly simultaneously broke the plagiarism story, neither organization will say who made the connection between nearly identical portions of the two papers — Hobbs’ written 26 years ago.

The Post’s Karen Crummy, who published her first online story at 4:47 p.m. July 12, would not reveal her source to State Bill Colorado. “It goes against everything we do in reporting,” she said. “We don’t discuss that.”

John Ferrugia, who co-wrote 7News’ online story appearing at 5:58 p.m. the same day, responded similarly. “I’m not going to go into that,” he said. – More –