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Katie Couric's library card a mystery to her
Posted by Fired Fred on April 11, 2007 2:59 PM
The anchor and managing editor of CBS News did a puff piece about the time she first got a library card. She remembered it well for her one minute 'Katie's Corner' piece that hit the web and all kinds of slavering CBS affiliates on April 4th.
There was a problem with the story - it was a fake. Ok, no big deal, Katie's 50 now, you can't expect old people to remember stuff real clearly, so maybe she just embellished things a little. Plus media types do that all the time, remembering stuff as fondly as it was written by someone else for them.
No?
It was worse than taking creative license?
C'mon, it's not like she plagiarized it, right?
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See, Katie didn't plagiarize this story. Some dumbass nitwit producer completely screwed up and wrote Katie's fondest library card memories for her by copying someone else's memories out of a Wall Street Journal article.
How can this happen? Did Katie have a tray of bagels hit her in the head and wipe out her original memories of getting a library card? Is there a part of the brain that controls library card memorization?
Because, ya know, this was a personal remembrance from the CBS News anchor. Her story. Except it wasn't. It was, in the words of the political philosopher Lewis Black, bullshit.
So Katie greenlit this, which wasn't her story, and it turns out to be not only fake BS but stolen BS as well. And her ass isn't fired now? Like Moonves needs more of an excuse with the ratings she's getting?
I understand the fake BS part. I think there should be a line drawn at stolen BS. Preferably on a pink slip.
The spin CBS is putting out is how they should have credited the WSJ writer, Jeffrey Zaslow. How the hell were they supposed to do that? Katie outsourced her library card memories to Jeff. WhaDaFU?
Maybe her judgment has been suffering since she started popping a 33 year old triathlete. Who can keep their minds on work when they can't stop thinking about playing Hide the Salami all day?