Calling Benjamin Barry-Borowitz!

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CBS News fires producer for plagiarism Tue Apr 10, 7:24 PM ET

 

 

 

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.

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[RockHard]

Last I heard, CBS is a for-profit company and Katie Couric is being paid $15 mil a year. I'd say a simple producer-firing is a just punishment for the crime. I doubt anyone was castrated, burned at the MC-stake, or left on the street to bleed to death. Now if the producer had been a popular, high-priced BLONDE escort, all bets are off. Everyone knows BLONDE escorts are held to a much higher standard. :-)

[AdamSmith]

>Last I heard, CBS is a for-profit company and Katie Couric is

>being paid $15 mil a year.

 

So ethical behavior matters only when big bucks are at stake.

[RockHard]

RE: Ethics 101

 

"So ethical behavior matters only when big bucks are at stake.

 

No, and I'm surprised AdamSmith would try to pin that on me. How cheap-shot.

 

I think ethical behavior matters all the time but the marketplace ultimately determines how much it matters for any public figure. Most reasonable people know they are not perfect and, therefore, they tend to be forgiving, especially when the offender acknowledges his mistake and makes a public apology.

 

I guess it could be argued that ethical behavior matters more when other people's livelihoods are at stake but I'll spare everyone that argument. Most men here prefer to talk about cock and pretend the man they're sucking is telling the truth about his HIV status.