Fired for plagiarism-three examples

The first example is that a CBS news producer was fired for plagiarism. A Katie Couric video essay on libraries was found to be plagiarized from The Wall Street Journal. 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. And CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius said.“We were horrified. It was almost verbatim.”So the CBS news producer was fired.

Secomd, a DT cloumnist was fired for plagiarism. Columnist Ty McDonald took direct statements and content from "Plagiarism and intellectual loot," a post on Christiaan Briggs' Weblog and two articles: "A new way to think about thoughts" and "Plagiarism is not a sin." This article certainly arouse our mind do not to do such thing which is unhonorable.

Third, high school principle in Naperville fired for plagiarism. The principle, Caudill, delivered a former student's speech without attribution. Caudill will not return as Naperville Central principal in the fall. And he has been with the district for 34 years and had announced his intention to retire in two years.