One major thing that seems to be glossed over in the college curriculum everywhere until very recently, no matter what one's major or field may have been or is, and that would be the issue of ethics. This subject is even being under-taught if taught at all in most of the prestigious business schools who are issuing the more than ever coveted MBA degrees vaulting it's recipients into the stratosphere of their chosen fields as a result of this expensive and admirable achievement.
We see evidence of this quite often in the world of journalism even with the advent of the internet and the obvious ease which anyone, be it blogger or journalist "professional" can research any topic in seconds making sure one's work or stories, professional or not do not fall into this category:
CBS News Fires Producer for Plagiarism
"Brierbart NEW YORK (AP) - A CBS News can producer was fired and the network apologized after a Katie Couric video essay on libraries was found to be plagiarized from The Wall Street Journal.
The essay was removed from the CBS Web site and an editor's note was posted saying the item should have credited Jeffrey Zaslow of the Journal, the network said Tuesday.
The essays are carried regularly on 'Couric & Co.,' the anchor's blog on the CBS News Web site. Couric and producers meet once a week to decide on topics and the producers write them for Couric to read on camera."An editor for The Wall Street Journal called CBS News to point out the similarities of the April 4 notebook item to Zaslow's article, headlined "Of the Places You'll Go, Is the Library Still One of Them?" The pieces talk about how libraries are seen differently by children from their parents.
"We were horrified," CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius said. "It was almost verbatim."
CBS would not identify the producer fired for the transgression.
No official journo' education here as I said but I'm smart enough to know better than this you can bet "degreed" producer did or does. That "producer" sure is lucky they are not being identified as of yet at least, as their career would be ruined forever for such a "transgression" that simply cannot be dismissed as carelessness, not in today's age for the reason I stated above
This doesn't happen to anyone that bothers to research for 5 minutes seeing if any comparisons to other's work could be identified as I and millions of others do do every time I or they write something. And after all, I'm a degreed graphic designer by trade, not a "Journalist". So if I can and will do it they sure the hell can too.
Or they just out and out copied the work thinking the world out there isn't as smart as they think they are, which is probably the more likely scenario.
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