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CBS News Producer Fired For Plagiarism;Couric video essay was copied from The Wall Street Journal
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| April 10, 2007
| AP
Posted on 04/10/2007 4:52:26 PM PDT by John W
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To: BluH2o
Well, only the editorials lean conservative - the WSJ news pages are just as liberal as the NYT’s. I recall with particular fondness a line in an article last year about communism’s “warm-hearted social programs”. ;)
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:32:00 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: operation clinton cleanup; gridlock
CBS would not identify the producer fired for the transgression.We just have to "trust" them when they say a producer was fired. They can (and do) say what they want but without a name I don't believe anyone was fired.
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:32:13 PM PDT
by
barker
( A smile is a curved line that sets things straight.)
To: james500
Why not? None of my business?Hopefully, the 'Journal' will. . .and they could do it kindly with the now expected footnote. . .he is now in 'rehab'. . .
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:32:54 PM PDT
by
cricket
To: Cicero
The most important qualification to getting hired by CBS is your ability to tie an anchor around your ankles and jump overboard, evidently.
To: Miss Marple
Miss Marple is me or what
I waiting for next shoe to drop LOL!
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:34:58 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: barker
Maybe the “producer” was none other than Katie!
To: operation clinton cleanup
Why not? You don't think the public can handle the truth? Nah... they want to promote him and hire him back in a couple of weeks. He's displayed just the character traits they appreciate in top management.
To: navyguy
Little wonder these clowns are dead last in ratings. Little doubt why people don’t trust the MSM.
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:43:49 PM PDT
by
bfree
(liberalism is the enemy of freedom!!!)
To: Mr. Jeeves
you are correct Mr Jeeves, some media group did a study on newspapers and the WSJ’s news pages was the most left leaning newspaper in the country, even beating out the NYT’s.
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:45:18 PM PDT
by
mware
(By all that you hold dear..Doing real on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
To: operation clinton cleanup
Would not be surprised at all but they will never admit it was her.
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:47:44 PM PDT
by
barker
( A smile is a curved line that sets things straight.)
To: monkapotamus
That’s not a real ping list...
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:49:00 PM PDT
by
lafroste
(gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
To: operation clinton cleanup
Maybe the “producer” was none other than Katie!
I was thinking the same thing. An act of desperation on the part of Katie to save her failing career.
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:49:54 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media.)
To: SevenofNine
Exactly right, Seven! I would bet cash money that this is only the tip of the iceberg!
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:54:03 PM PDT
by
Miss Marple
(Prayers for Jemian's son,: Lord, please keep him safe and bring him home .)
To: pollyannaish
"Now we know why leftists think all news organizations are biased to the right. They get their best stuff from the WSJ evidently."
Unfortunately, 99.99% of the time the MSM broadcast outfits are merely cribbing from the NY Times, plagiarizing the plagiarizers...... Bernie Goldberg describes in one of his books how CBS "news producers" in his day couldn't take a piss unless it was sanctioned by the NY Times. He gives an example of a story that See-BS kept passing on until it finally appeared on the front page of the NY Times and suddenly it was big news to CBS.
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posted on
04/10/2007 5:55:46 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Liefong, Fitzfong, Earlefong, Schumfong, Waxfong, Pelosifong.... see a pattern here?!?)
To: Enchante
Great post. Absolutely correct. That is what happens with “Arrogance.”
(I love Bernie, btw.)
To: gridlock
ROFLMAO!!
“We were horrified,” CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius said. “It was almost verbatim.”
LOL.... so Katie Couric's "original" thoughts in this video essay were merely some junior producer plagiarizing the WSJ...... but the rest of the time her "original" thoughts are merely some junior producer putting words in her mouth, and for the latter she is paid $15 or $20 million per year??? At least now we know that when she utters vapid idiocies on camera they may not be her own vapid idiocies -- a 25 year old "producer" may be whispering in her ear, so to speak.
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posted on
04/10/2007 6:00:37 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Liefong, Fitzfong, Earlefong, Schumfong, Waxfong, Pelosifong.... see a pattern here?!?)
To: gridlock
Who wants to know what a junior producer at CBS thinks about something? Peggy Noonan used to write for Dan Rather, I think. Truth be told, lots of folks use writers. Just not plagiarists. And lots of folks edit heavily the copy that the writers come up with, and usually give the writer direction on what the video essay should take. Don't know about CBS, 'cuz I don't have a TV, except for hockey.
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posted on
04/10/2007 6:01:01 PM PDT
by
Ace's Dad
("There are more important things: Friendship, Bravery...")
To: Just sayin
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posted on
04/10/2007 6:09:03 PM PDT
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
To: bfree
Exactly.
Great tagline you have there!
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posted on
04/10/2007 6:09:54 PM PDT
by
navyguy
(We don't need more youth. What we need is a fountain of SMART.)
To: gridlock
KKKKKKKKKKKKatie.....Time for you to......
QQQQQQQQQQQQQuit!!!!!
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posted on
04/10/2007 6:28:59 PM PDT
by
albee
(The best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
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