From USAToday.com: http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2007-04-10-couric-plagiarism_N.htm?csp=34
Apparently Katie’s producer was trying to take some shortcuts or something - her video blog from April 4th was plagiarized from an article written by Jeffrey Zaslow.
Here is Zaslow’s original article: http://www.careerjournal.com/columnists/movingon/20070320-movingon.html
CBS has done a good job of getting rid of the video. It’s not on YouTube anymore, and Couric’s site has been updated to reflect the “correction.” I couldn’t find it on Internet Archive Web site, but I did find a cached (the link may not work) version of the original essay (yay, Google!), but the video cannot be played.
The ability to rewrite history, whether it’s a revised blog or something more, is so easy these days. Look at Google Maps. Post-Katrina images were replaced with pre-Katrina images, and, after much protest, Google re-posted the post-Katrina images:
I wonder if Google was trying to do damage control by announcing (yesterday?) the availability of maps from Darfur.
