SEE what happens when someone ghost writes your blog entries for you?
CBS anchor Katie Couric is reportedly shocked by an entry that appeared on the Katie Couric’s Notebook portion of the official Couric & Co. blog on CBS. Couric has admitted that she does not pen some of the entries on her blog.
In this case, the blog entry, a video and text essay, was reportedly penned by one of the producers, who has been fired after it turned out that the blog post plagiarized a Jeffrey Zaslow column piece on The Wall Street Journal.
Here’s an excerpt from the Boston Herald article:
Earlier this week, CBS News executives fired a producer after one of Couric’s blog entries turned out to be a Wall Street Journal ripoff. While it’s presented as Couric’s own, producers are behind many of her blog entries.
“Blogs are a whole new realm of new media. If you’re going to commit to doing a blog, the readers’ view is that it’s yours,” said Peter Morrissey, an associate professor of public relations at Boston University. Even though some high-profile people with blogs have ghostwriters, they need to provide “adequate oversight,” he said.
CBS issued an Editor’s Note on April 4 regarding the blog entry:
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.
August 1st, 2007 at 3:44 pm
I wasn’t able to attend our graduation ceremony because of plagiarism, can you imagine that? lol
April 16th, 2007 at 9:57 am
re: Couric. yes it is plagiarism when a source is not cited for a work produced.
re: Univ of Toronto. it is a sad one, however, i remember an agreement that i was supposed to sign before i registered for a song-writing competition. it states that when i submit my song to them, whether it becomes a finalist or not, as long as it is an entry, it becomes the property of the music company, and you shall not get any liability from it. that is how i see it. especially in a world full of different kinds of politics, our work becomes the property of the company (or the institution), since we are a small entity dependent on the institution… and i know it sucks!
April 15th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
I wonder why Katie Couric became a target of 1000 blogs, but not Ellen Larsen. Read about Ellen Larsen:
“University of Toronto Fraud” at http://ca.geocities.com/uoftfraud/