Thursday, April 12, 2007

So who's fault is this?

ABC and anchor Katie Couric have come under fire for a plagiarized blog entry. Apparently, even though the blog is called "Katie Couric's Notebook," she doesn't actually write all of (or maybe even some of) the entries. But what a disconnect for the listener when Couric starts out with "I still remember when I got my first library card." Turns out this wasn't a story about when she got her first library card, but when Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow got his first library card -- and then subsequently wrote about it in his March 20th column. It's a lovely piece and I applaud CBS for wanting to showcase the wonders of libraries, but surely Couric has some memories of her very own on this subject?

ABC has published an editor's note of apology and fired the still-unnamed producer who "wrote" the blog entry for Couric. You can read a line-by-line comparison of the two pieces at The Raw Story.

Hmm, I'm thinking I need to get me one of those producers.

2 Comments:

Aliisa said...

oops...

3:54 PM  
Aliisa, again said...

although that's a rather pathetic subject to plagiarize. wow.

3:55 PM  

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