Couric in the Eye of Plagiarism Case
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For $15 million a year, wouldn’t you think Katie Couric could find the time in her day to reflect on her own feelings in her Couric & Co. blog on the cbsnews.com Web site — and not on those of a Wall Street Journal reporter named Jeffrey Zaslow?
“I still remember when I got my first library card,” the April 4 Katie Couric’s Notebook video blog on cbsnews.com began. Much of what followed apparently wasn’t written by Ms. Couric, but instead by a Web producer who had read Mr. Zaslow’s essay about the declining use of libraries in the Internet age, published on March 15. Thanks to CBS News’s own partial disclosure, we now know that her producer plagiarized significant portions of Ms. Couric’s blog from Mr. Zaslow’s piece. But we still don’t know what Ms. Couric was so busy doing on April 4 that she needed a team of producers to figure out what was on her mind that day.
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