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CBS News Producer Fired For Plagiarism;Couric video essay was copied from The Wall Street Journal
MSNBC ^
| April 10, 2007
| AP
Posted on 04/10/2007 4:52:26 PM PDT by John W
NEW YORK - A CBS News producer was fired and the network apologized after a Katie Couric video essay on libraries was found to be plagiarized from The Wall Street Journal.
The essay was removed from the CBS Web site and an editor’s note was posted saying the item should have credited Jeffrey Zaslow of the Journal, the network said Tuesday.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beyondstupid; firekatie; highpaidreader; katiecolonic; nonewskatie
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To: james500
Well, because that would be actual news reporting!
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:00:06 PM PDT
by
Just sayin
(Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)
To: james500
Because then everyone would start investigating everything else that he produced.
-PJ
I find it fitting that Britney Spears is alongside the article laughing......it almost seems intentional.
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:02:31 PM PDT
by
Just sayin
(Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)
To: lesser_satan
How the hell could they not know they’d get caught? IROFLMAO!! Even THEY think nobody watches!
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:03:06 PM PDT
by
Hildy
("man's reach exceeds his grasp"? It's a lie: man's grasp exceeds his nerve.)
To: james500
I think the funniest thing about this story is that it was the producer that was filed for plagiarism. That means that CBS is as much as admitting that producers write the text of Katie Couric’s video essays, and she just reads them into the camera.
Isn’t the whole point of Perky Katie’s little sermonettes that they are a window into her own thinking about the various issues of the day? Who wants to know what a junior producer at CBS thinks about something?
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:05:32 PM PDT
by
gridlock
(On January 20, 2009, Fred Dalton Thompson will be sworn in as President of the United States.)
To: John W
,
CBS would not identify the producer fired for the transgression.Why not? You don't think the public can handle the truth?
To: John W
Do you mean to say that Katie just reads whatever they put in front of her, without doing any news work or writing of her own?
I’m shocked, shocked. I thought she was a serious news person.
Well, they learned one thing from Dan Rather anyway: When you get caught, don’t deny it, throw somebody expendable overboard.
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:07:15 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Just sayin
Oh boy. That’ll be a photo finish.
To: Political Junkie Too
Because then everyone would start investigating everything else that he produced.Precisely.
And I wonder what stories he/she "produced" during recent political campaign seasons. This producer might be a Mary Mapes protege.
To: Brilliant
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:12:02 PM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: SevenofNine
She-should-be-replaced-with-a-computer-generated-Rod-Serling-ping
To: windcliff
To: John W; monkapotamus; All
This got be worst than Dan rather scandel is it rack ittt Monk ROFL
I watch computer generated Rod Serling myself than Katie Couric
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:16:28 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: Dog
Good grief! The guy probably thought he wouldn't get caught because "no one with any sense (our viewers) reads the Wall Street Journal" and "those jerks over there don't watch CBS."
HAHAHAHA!
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:18:30 PM PDT
by
Miss Marple
(Prayers for Jemian's son,: Lord, please keep him safe and bring him home .)
To: John W
Schadenfreude to the Max. Time for the Pajama Bloggers to do their magic, and find out who he was and what other essays are plagiarism, not authentic.
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:19:32 PM PDT
by
samantha
(The New Media fighting the DBM for our Sanity, Survival ,Soldiers.)
To: John W
I know I should be outraged at this but just can’t keep from laughing.
Poor, poor Katie. How many underlings will they fire before realizing the statue must come down?
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:21:34 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: John W
A CBS News producer was fired and the network apologized after a Katie Couric video essay on libraries was found to be plagiarized from The Wall Street Journal. Plagiarized from the WSJ? Interesting, the WSJ is one of the more balanced editorial boards in the MSM today. In fact, I often tell my liberal acquaintances who think the NY Times is bible ... to read the WSJ editorial pages in order to get a smidgen of balance in their liberal world.
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:23:05 PM PDT
by
BluH2o
To: John W
Thanks for posting, John W. FReeper comments bump!
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:24:15 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: lesser_satan
Yes, hard to imagine how could they be this stupid!
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:24:32 PM PDT
by
Dante3
To: Liberty Valance
Why is this man smiling?
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:26:34 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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