Producer for Katie Couric Fired -- For Lifting from 'Wall St Journal'

[babylonsister]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003569789

Producer for Katie Couric Fired -- For Lifting from 'Wall St Journal'

Published: April 10, 2007 11:45 PM ET

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.

The essays are carried regularly on "Couric & Co.," the anchor's blog on the CBS News Web site. Couric and producers meet once a week to decide on topics and the producers write them for Couric to read on camera.

An editor for The Wall Street Journal called CBS News to point out the similarities of the April 4 notebook item to Zaslow's article, headlined "Of the Places You'll Go, Is the Library Still One of Them?" The pieces talk about how libraries are seen differently by children from their parents.

"We were horrified," CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius said. "It was almost verbatim."

CBS would not identify the producer fired for the transgression.

[tsuki]

1. They fired the only producer that reads the WSJ? I wonder if

any of them read the NYT? WaPo? My Pet Goat?

:rofl:

[fasttense]

2. Figures they would steal from a right wing tool like

Wall Street Journal. The producer probably knew that Couric never reads anything but the WH yakking points. The fact that she didn't know it was lifted before she read it on camera is so revealing.

[Chimichurri]

3. my thoughts exactly. I wonder how long before she's replaced.

[JNelson6563]

5. Too long.

It's been too long already.

Julie

[partylessinOhio]

6. Not soon enough.

[NormanYorkstein]

4. I loved how Colbert slammed Katie Couric

Couric says "I use this trite phrase when I meet my ass kissers since I don't know their names" and Colbert says "yes, the little people ha ha ha" and Couric laughs right along with him. What a joke she is. That's "serious news" *snicker*

So the hacks on Couric's staff crib from WSJ articles? Is anyone surprised?