Discussion: CNN Fires News Editor Who Plagiarized 50 Stories And Counting

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Fox has probably offered her a job since ‘integrity, trust and simply giving credit’ is not part of their journalistic ethics.

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Sen. Rand Paul immediately inroduced a ‘Sense of the Senate’ resolution that in effect said ‘So? What’s the big deal?’

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I thought CNN had adopted the Fox model of entertainment, long ago.

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She’ll get the corner office at Fox.

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Now, if only they would get rid of the ‘journalists’ who tell outright lies (or play the stupid “Democrats say the Earth is round but the Republicans say it is flat. We’ll let you decide.” crap) . That might be even better.

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Zucher had the same problem at NBC. I guess he has a blind eye to it.

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That’d be “Oopsie.”

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I’m sorry, but I find it impossible to believe they hadn’t received any complaints or notifications about this. A friend of mine in college got caught after plagiarizing one article (from an obscure source across the country) in the college newspaper when someone informed the editor that he was copying it from someone else. And this was in the 90’s in the infancy of the internet. Nothing could convince me they hadn’t been informed she was doing this for quite some time.

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It is really really easy to catch plagiarism these days. I make my students “hand in” their papers electronically as a word doc because you can easily use any number of anti-plagiarism programs to analyze them. You just upload the file and it does an automatic search of the internet. I have caught about a dozen students that way.

That being said, you have to be checking, and I doubt CNN, or any news outlet for that matter, checks every piece every reporter files. It would simply take too much time to do that. So they probably do sample checks. You can’t expect the public to catch it because on the internet, especially the news sites, they do so much cross-posting, no one really pays attention to the authors anymore. Think about how many times you have seen an AP or Reuters story even here on TPM, much less every where else. If a passage tickled anyone’s memory, it would be easy to chalk it up to a cross-posting if you don’t bother following that up.

That being said, good for CNN. Not only did they do the right thing, but they did it after an internal review caught her. They didn’t wait for someone in the public to point it out. They may barely be a news network any more, but at least they have some standards.

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Maybe this was the only possible way anyone could interject “news” to the Malaysian Air Travel network channel

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Every now and then I like to go to CNN.com and click on over to the Malaysia Airlines section, just to generate some web stats for them that make it look like there are people out there who still want 24/7 coverage of that story.

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Oh, okay. The headline on the front page really had me wondering who “Ed” was. I was feeling bad for Mr. Kilgore, though I didn’t see how CNN could fire him.

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Plagerism is abhorrent to the profession, but speculating about plane disappearances over water being due to physics-defying “black holes” or space aliens=totally good journalism.

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“CNN: Trust, integrity and simply giving credit where it’s due Sensationalism, false equivalency, and manufactured controversy are among the tenets of journalism we hold dear.”

Fixed.

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These stories of corruption, of plagerism used to occur about one per every five years, now they are a twice yearly occurance. Conservatism fosters corruption. And it is getting worse.

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CNN Claims Ed Plagiarized 50 Stories

Ugg was wondering … “who’s Ed?”

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Rand Paul will hire her by the 1st of next week!

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How can you “plagiarize” a plane crash?

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Does this mean that CNN will censor all of Ryand Paul’s speeches or better yet, not allow him any airtime again, ever?

If they don’t condone plagiarizing, then they don’t condone Ryand Paul and his penchant for plagiarizing in print and speech.

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