Make That "Katie Couric's Flunky's Notebook"
So "Katie Couric's Notebook", subtitled "A look into Katie's notebook," ran an essay about kids and libraries that was copied from a WSJ article. According to the NYT, "CBS has fired the producer who wrote the piece for Ms. Couric, and said yesterday it was investigating to see if the producer, whose name CBS has not disclosed, had written any previous commentaries for Ms. Couric that had been plagiarized....CBS News executives said they were stunned that anyone would so blatantly copy someone else's work."
No word on whether they were embarrassed that CBS would blatantly pretend that Katie Couric writes her own notebook.
This double standard is an old bugaboo of mine. I don't care when actors, athletes, and CEOs hire ghostwriters, though I do think they should give their ghosts credit, but people who pretend to be journalists and public intellectuals should do their own damn work.