Katie Couric embarrassed by plagiarism

[mikesilvia]

As I have always stated, the liberal media is full of liars. Their biggest queen used a story about her first library card. So, her staff not only stole a Wall Street Journal story, but she pawned it off as her own childhood story. This is what I mean about news media brainwashing people about Iraq and other areas. Same as Dan Rather using a bogus 1970s Word Document and trying to pass it off as a President Bush military record to sway the 2004 Presidential race. :thumbsdown:

The pillar of the American media establishment took a knock yesterday with an admission of plagiarism in a video essay attributed to the CBS anchor Katie Couric.

Couric's producer was sacked and her network obliged to apologise for the incident which occurred in a commentary called Katie's Notebook, which purported to be a personal essay from the anchor and was posted on her blog.

Couric, who became the first woman to serve as the solo anchor for the evening news on one of the traditional big three networks, was horrified to learn of the plagiarism, press reports said yesterday.

The piece on the joys of getting her first library card as a child relied heavily on a column by Jeffrey Zaslow that appeared in the Wall Street Journal last month, lamenting the decline of public libraries.

"Much of the material in the Notebook came from Mr Zaslow, and we should have acknowledged that at the top of our piece. We offer our sincere apologies for the omission," CBS said in an editor's note on its website yesterday.

The offending essay was stripped from the website.

The Washington Post media editor, Howard Kurtz, said the personal nature of the piece made the plagiarism all the more striking, with the piece beginning with Couric reminiscing about the day she got her first library card.

Good to see such a terrible reporter get caught stealing work.

[Turbo]

Fantastic...