CBS says Couric unaware video essay plagiarized

Yeah, that's the ticket :eyes:

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"CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric may vividly recall her first library card, but the network says she was unaware that her online video essay about the virtues of libraries was largely a work of plagiarism.

CBS News said this week the April 4 installment of "Katie Couric's Notebook" consisted mostly of passages lifted verbatim from a Wall Street Journal column by Jeffrey Zaslow that was published in March.

The producer responsible for Couric's piece was fired on Monday night, hours after the Journal contacted CBS News to complain, network spokeswoman Sandy Genelius said on Tuesday.

The essay was immediately removed from the CBS News Web site, and a correction was posted in its place. The network did not identify the producer who was fired.

Although the text for the minute-long video was written in first person -- introduced by Couric with the line, "I still remember when I got my first library card" -- Couric did not compose the piece herself and was unaware that much of it was plagiarized, Genelius said.

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btw---I just got off the ship from a late winter excursion to Eridani prime, taking a weekend tour a cute little place on Mercury. :sarcasm:

They really didn't mean it! Repub. Cheerleaders never do I guess...

I miss Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather and The CBS Evening News.

"I didn't do it!"

:D

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Fox is fulled with with a bunch of Never-was.'

Coochie Couric belongs there.

I read the news everyday, no one is paying me millions. What the hell do we need people like here for? I only see her mug when I am at work-my residents are Fox fans as well as all the other media whores.

her copy and/or production behind the copy. If she relies on others to provide her with 20 minutes of pratter M-F, then she is admitting she isn't a journalist whatsoever, but a newsreader.

Eric Sevareid, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Dan Rather wrote their own copy.

Would we not be either incompetent or culpable? I don't think you can have it both ways. If she is the good reporter or anchor that they would like her to be seen as, then she needs to be on top of her job, which is knowing what the devil is going on around her.

As if we didn't know that already.

Nor does she write her own copy. Exactly what does the idiotic woman do? Wait, I know, she reads from a TelePrompter while looking strangely near sighted.

God, I miss real news reporters.

Amen to that. Out of all the many talented female reporters they could have chosen for the news, they had to go with the most unqualified. She's the queen of infotainment.

penciled on lips and the words coming out from them.

In depth reporting like it used to was.

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if only Amy had the exposure Ms. Cholera had!

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Why not the writer, unless the writer really was Couric? The producer should be disciplined, yes, but the writer should be fired.

Something stinks.

wasn't watching her closely enough.

...that the story did not reflect her own actual experience? I mean, the report was given in the first person; therefore, we the audience had the right to expect that it had at least a passing resemblance to something that she really did, something that really happened to her. So now we know, she presents first-person narratives that did not happen in reality -- which is at least as bad as the fact that one of these little fantasies was plagiarized from someone else.

This story was told in the first person. But as it turns out she was just reading. Like she does every day.

This reinforces my argument that the people reading the news should be a good looking as possible (while articulate) and any other qualification is irrelevant. They do not discover the news. They read. And on television I like to look at good looking women (I'm a straight guy). For equity's sake they should have good looking guys too.

These people read the news. Nothing more - other than being a celebrity.

It's completely disingenuous.

she could be a Republican operative.

Oh. She is, you say.

Nevermind.

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They have to get rid of her. They know they made a terrible mistake. All they need is the "out".

This should be it.

She can read a teleprompter with the best of them!

That's a waste of however many minutes it is that could be spent reporting real news. It's like her asking viewers to come up with a sign off phrase for her. Cutsey wutsey.

Memo to CBS: The CBS Evening News is not the Today show.

No wait now it's Hello *everyone*. She's serious news now.

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couric is absolutely clueless and WHEN is she going to beg, borrow, or buy a freakin' clue?

....you shouldn't let people put stolen words in your mouth, please be more careful next time....

....and fix your eye make-up, they look like two piss-holes in the snow....

Teacher: Katie, I asked you to write a one-page essay on your summer vacation, and I have a feeling you didn't write the essay you handed in to me. Did you take those words from someone else, did you steal that off the internet?

Katie: Oh no miss, I'd never steal someone else's words - it's not like that at all. I paid Johnny to write my essay for me! He must have stolen it of the net, I had no idea he was going to do that!

What blows me away is that CBS pays her 15 million dollars just to read the news. And she is in third place in the ratings. Unreal.

and that he felt so comfortable that nobody else did that he was willing to plagiarize it.

These are people in the news business and all but one doesn't read the WSJ!