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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beyondstupid; firekatie; highpaidreader; katiecolonic; nonewskatie
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1 posted on 04/10/2007 4:52:28 PM PDT by John W
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Not a good day for the media.


3 posted on 04/10/2007 4:54:08 PM PDT by babaloo
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To: John W

Why is Katie Couric allowed to skate? She should be fired for calling those girls nappy...Oh, never mind. Katie Couric should be fired anyway!!


4 posted on 04/10/2007 4:54:14 PM PDT by TommyDale ("Rudy can win the War on Terror!" Perhaps, but for whose side?)
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To: John W

Fake but accurate.


5 posted on 04/10/2007 4:54:24 PM PDT by navyguy (We don't need more youth. What we need is a fountain of SMART.)
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To: John W

Oh, no! Say it isn’t so! Cute & perky Katie is a plagiarist!


6 posted on 04/10/2007 4:54:31 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: John W

Katie Couric isn’t writing her own essays? Heck CBS isn’t even writing their own HA HA HA. CBS just keeps the tradition alive!


7 posted on 04/10/2007 4:54:35 PM PDT by Just sayin (Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)
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8 posted on 04/10/2007 4:54:42 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: John W

How the hell could they not know they’d get caught? I know they’re evil, but I didn’t think they were that stupid.


9 posted on 04/10/2007 4:55:11 PM PDT by lesser_satan (FRED THOMPSON '08)
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To: John W

Dan Rather training them?


10 posted on 04/10/2007 4:55:52 PM PDT by Hi Heels (cleverly disguised as a responsible adult....)
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To: lesser_satan

VRWC


11 posted on 04/10/2007 4:55:59 PM PDT by Just sayin (Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)
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LOL. Now we know why leftists think all news organizations are biased to the right. They get their best stuff from the WSJ evidently.
12 posted on 04/10/2007 4:56:20 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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“Why am I being fired? I was just doing what I learned to do in high school and college.”


13 posted on 04/10/2007 4:57:10 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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14 posted on 04/10/2007 4:57:43 PM PDT by Dog
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To: lesser_satan
How the hell could they not know they’d get caught? I know they’re evil, but I didn’t think they were that stupid.

Remember this is the network of the fake National Guard memos. Makes one wonder how many other instances of this stuff have not yet been caught.

15 posted on 04/10/2007 4:57:56 PM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: John W

These are the same people who are always dissing the Journal, right?


16 posted on 04/10/2007 4:57:59 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: pollyannaish

Maybe Katie is trying to steal Dan Rather’s thunder for being the biggest fool.


17 posted on 04/10/2007 4:58:16 PM PDT by Just sayin (Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)
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CBS News Producer Fired For Plagiarism;Couric video essay was copied from The Wall Street Journal

Oh, come on now!!! CBS won't fire their "news" people for making up stories, lying, being obsessively liberal, and showing their hatred of conservatives in each story but they will fire for illegal copying? This must be a "token" firing.

18 posted on 04/10/2007 4:58:39 PM PDT by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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““We were horrified,” CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius said. “It was almost verbatim.”

CBS would not identify the producer fired for the transgression.”

Why not? None of my business?


19 posted on 04/10/2007 4:58:42 PM PDT by james500
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To: John W

Caught is a word long ignored by the press, unless applied to one of their victims.


20 posted on 04/10/2007 4:59:12 PM PDT by billhilly (My former tag line.)
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