Posted on 04/11/2007 8:51:25 PM PDT by LdSentinal
For $15 million a year, wouldn't you think Katie Couric could find the time in her day to reflect on her own feelings in her Couric & Co. blog on the cbsnews.com Web site — and not on those of a Wall Street Journal reporter named Jeffrey Zaslow?
"I still remember when I got my first library card," the April 4 Katie Couric's Notebook video blog on cbsnews.com began. Much of what followed apparently wasn't written by Ms. Couric, but instead by a Web producer who had read Mr. Zaslow's essay about the declining use of libraries in the Internet age, published on March 15. Thanks to CBS News's own partial disclosure, we now know that her producer plagiarized significant portions of Ms. Couric's blog from Mr. Zaslow's piece. But we still don't know what Ms. Couric was so busy doing on April 4 that she needed a team of producers to figure out what was on her mind that day.
And why did CBS News fire the producer responsible, but decline to reveal the identity? In an era when plagiarists get dismissed and outed weekly by their employers at news organizations around the country, the decision by CBS News not to disclose the producer's name — and to call an act of flagrant plagiarism an "omission" — seems curious at best. According to sources within CBS News, her name is Melissa McNamara, a cbsnews.com Web producer (and herself a blogger for cbsnews.com) who joined the network in October 2005 after working as a news assistant in the Washington bureau of the New York Times and as a researcher at CNN. Ms. McNamara couldn't be reached yesterday for comment.
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Nobody cares what Couric steals from Rich White Men(WSJ), especially CBS, who I think is getting read to fire Imus.
You get a perky . . . *BUMP* !
But Edwards and Obama still think its ok to appear in any CBS sponsored debates.
Some artful blogger should go back and examine all this bimbo's writings for the last few years...see what else she has stolen, made up, cobbled together from others...
Snort. The plagiarizer comes to CBS via the New York Times and CNN. How telling.
Previously, McNamara worked in communications and development at Demos, a public policy think-tank in New York City. She began her journalism career as a News Assistant in the Washington bureau of The New York Times. Her writing and reporting has been published in The New York Times, on Oxygen.com, and on CNN.com.
McNamara graduated with high honors from Wesleyan University and received an M.P.A. from Columbia University.
That woman gives “perky” a bad name.
Drop the blonde jokes: It’s time for a new generation of PERKY jokes.
“According to sources within CBS News, her name is Melissa McNamara.”
I think we should impeach the President of CBS for outing McNamara.
Nope. No agenda there.
The once perky one hasn’t had an original thought in 10 years.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I second that.
Translated into English what he really said is as follows. "At least Dan Rather only lied, Sweet mother of God we have invested 100 million in this idiot plagiarizer. What in the hell do we do now?"
The media are filled with liars.
So, is CBS praying that the whole Imus/CBS thing is going to take the attention and heat off of the whole Couric/CBS thing?
Why am I not surprised she formerly worked at two "agenda-trumps-the-facts" organizations?
The perky one quickly went out to her mail box, looked in it, closed the door of the box, and went back in the house. A few minutes later she repeated this process by checking her mail again.
She did this five more times, and her neighbor that was watching her commented: “You must be expecting a very important letter today the way you keep looking into that mail box.”
The perky one answered, “No, I am working on my computer, and it keeps telling me that I have mail.”
CBS News, the esteemed network of forgerers and plagiarists...
Biden/Couric ‘08-we’re not smart enough on our own, but we’ll borrow some one else’s work to make you think we are
The perky one gets a new cell phone from her producer.
The next day she goes to Macy’s and her phone rings, so she answers it.
It was her producer. He says, “How’s the new cell phone?”
The perky one replied, “Great...but how did you know I was at Macy’s?”
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