CBS News Producer Axed for Ripping Off WSJ Article About Those Buildings With All Those Books

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From an April 4 entry on Couric & Co., blog of all things Katie:

Correction: The April 4 Notebook was based on a "Moving On" column by Jeffrey Zaslow that ran in The Wall Street Journal on March 15 with the headline, "Of the Places You'll Go, Is the Library Still One of Them?" 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.

Which was followed up with a post on Public Eye, the CBS ombudsman blog.

Neither of which have mentioned the fallout from the incident.

Reports the AP:

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. [...]

CBS would not identify the producer fired for the transgression.

Which means it's time for you, faithful readers, to identify the fired producer so he can be shunned and forever regret "the omission." Or so we can buy him a beer, the poor sap.

Apr 11, 2007 · posted by David Hauslaib, Jossip · Link · 1 Response
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