'We are Katie Couric'

pwallace new york city new york. — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:37:43 GMT

She realy is not a real news person, she has an entertanment show, when i want the news i go to NBC. I am sure she is a sweet person so lets leave her alone.

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Roger Scheunemann, Albuquerque, NM — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:43:29 GMT

Those computers in Nigeria all look like they have been pasted into the picture. Especially the one in the teacher's hand. They have no discernible keyboards, etc. I think this is a put on.

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Steve S., Springfield, Ill. — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:11:53 GMT

Don Imus has just been fired by CBS. I trust Couric's termination will follow. For a journalist, I'd put plagiarism just a bit higher than racism on the list of behaviors "punishable by termination."

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Alex, Lawrence, KS — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:20:23 GMT

Roger, if you think that, then view the other pictures, they do a better job of showing you that they are in fact real.

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Will Femia — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:26:18 GMT

Steve, they fired her producer, but the funny think about Katie's position on the plagiarism is that even though she pretended like it was her own story she was telling in her own words, she had nothing to do with any of it. Her defense is ignorance.

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J S, Los Angeles, CA — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:38:30 GMT

Does Katie Couric not have anything of her own to say? It seems every other anchor on national cable or network news will inject their own opinion, debate with guests on their shows, and run their own blog. Sure all of this is supervised by producers, but this really does seem to reduce Couric to a pretty face who reads the news, which is just plain sad.

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Diane Weston AuGres MI — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:43:25 GMT

Why does everyone dislike Katie so much???JEALSOUY maybe? The woman is I'm sure trying her best....where is her support..I still think she is wonderful..and yes I am a libril democrat...She is real I did just read the comments about the 60 min. interview..surprising...but all journalists have asked horrible ?'s to someone like the devils advocate..please give her a break..

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KW — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:25:23 GMT

Will, not entirely sure if this was your point also (and maybe this is obvious to everyone else), but what I find amusing is that if plagiarism is passing off someone else's work as your own, isn't that what the entire "My notebook" is about? Couldn't the fired employee claim that Katie was plagiarizing him/her? Excepting of course that it was done with the "victim's" consent. Not being legally precise here, but still seems kind of funny.

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EC, Akron, Ohio — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:32:27 GMT

Email conspiracy theory? Do you pay attention to Congress at all? http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1225 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-laptops9apr09,0,4563806.story?coll=la-home-headlines http://talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/Senate-Fielding/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

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Dennis McClain-Furmanski — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:26:59 GMT

Regarding the link to the Ars Techinca article on IDC's research into spam vs. regular emial volumes: IDC concludes that spam will overtake regular email volumes soon, due to the former's slowing growth and the latter's increased growth. This was contradicted by the observations and objective measurements given by large system administrators, manegement people and independent investigators at the first FTC Spam Conference in 2003. By their reports, over half, and as much as 80%, of the volume of email hitting their servers was spam. This did not include the billions of connection attempts per day made by spammers, which did not result in spam, but did put an excessive strain on their servers. My own account at gmail.com receives less than 100 valid emails per month, but the spam trapping folder runs between 500 and 600 spam messages, which are automatically deleted after 30 days. Without IDC's research to read, it seems they are only measuring spam that makes it through filters, not the volume that is sent and received by systems which provide such filtering. It's there, even if the user can't see it, which is what they care about. System administrators care about the machines that gives the users the chance to get their email. Most of those people attending the FTC conference applauded one of the FTC commissioner's statement after coming to understand the scope of the problem, "What we need are a few good old fashioned hangings." Not the FTC's official position, obviously, but certainly a voicing of the frustration felt by those who knew years ago that spam was already in reality the majority of what actually passed through the pipes.

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Sarah, Louisiana — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:54:47 GMT

I have to say I am entirely disturbed by the forcing of UF to rename its business school after Jeb Bush. I hope the legislation passed some extra funding since the school will be forced to reprint all brochures, letterhead, business cards, recruiting posters, marketing stuff, etc. I find it amazing that a state legislative body would be so vindictive and petty towards an institution of higher learning. Maybe I find it amazing because I'm only a few years out of school myself. Are there any links to the school news outlets showing what the university body thinks of this? I would go looking but I'm suposed to be working right now...

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Gary, Nashville, TN — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:00:14 GMT

Bush has not outlawed or banned stem cell research in America. He is against the Federal funding of stem cell research. So am I, but religion and/or morals has nothing to do with it. Why should I have to fund research that will be used by big name pharmaceutical companies to come up with so-called cures that I won't be able to afford? All these "research" firms are just companies trying to get Uncle Sam to fund their research so they can get rich off of the results. There will be no benefit to the rest of us, unless we can afford their exorbitant prices for treatment. They are going to reap the financial rewards, let them absorb the financial risks. Only seems fair.

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Lynn Finch, Indianapolis, IN — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:06:00 GMT

on the Imus thing.....I think it's more of a power play than racial outrage. Especially with election "season" gearing up, what passes for radical Black leadership needs to justify their existence and convince tptb that they (still) have clout. You don't hear Jackson and Sharpton weighing in on the Duke Lacrosse incident, do you? Nope - no power there. But kicking a guy while down - yep, high visibility, easy to incite outrage - right down their alley. I think Imus was out of line, but he deserves to be fired ONLY if rappers, pro athletes, and other individuals in the public eye are held to the same standards....

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BacknBlack, MD — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:19:11 GMT

Katie is a fake, a product of the system. She is more of a drone than anything else. Everything she reports on is handed to her. She does no real reporting on her own.

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CDH — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:45:10 GMT

I think Nigerians have enough computers already. I get about 20 emails per day from different people in Nigeria (or other african countries) offering to share millions of dollars with me if I will help them get their late father's ill gotten riches out of the country. All they need is for me to send a small amount to cover expenses. Has anyone ever fallen for this scam?

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scout29c — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:11:24 GMT

Was the doctored photo of Rove with the Coptrix folder a set up to distract us from the real issue? Like when the blow up over the fake memos Dan Rather used about Bush's favorable treatment in the Texas Air National Guard ended any further discussion about Bush's service. Makes you wonder. However, the difference then from now is who's got the majority in Congress. And in memory of Kurt Vonnegut: So it goes.

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scout29c — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:18:45 GMT

Tennessee wins the women's basketball tournament, becomes the national champs, and Rutgers gets all the media attention. Rutgers players get serious face time on TV and Tennessee players get squat.

The Rutgers players go to the governor's mansion. The national champion Tennessee players go back to class.

The media coverage is a recruiting opportunity for Rutgers worth millions of dollars and Imus get fired.

White people can not use the n-word or even talk like gangstas, but blacks are free to do so with abandon with absolutely no risk of loss of job or position unlike the rest of us suckas.

Harold Ford, Jr. decides he is more a black than a friend.

This would look a whole lot better if you left the spaces in it.

And in memory of Kurt Vonnegut: So it goes.

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KW — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:01:15 GMT

I don't understand why the Katie Couric story isn't showing up much. I've talked to several people who are generally attentive to the media and they knew nothing about it. The only reference on the MSNBC page is this one. CBS news search for Plagiarism or "Wall Street Journal" shows nothing, no apology, nothing. And I didn't see anything in the WSJ itself this morning either (though I did rush through it). Is it me or is this a little odd? I would think the WSJ would be all over this since they don't exactly like KC and I believe the story broke early enough to make today's edition (though maybe I'm wrong?).

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librildemocratha, seattle, wash — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:01:49 GMT

I love the bias you include here, Will.

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Michael Landon, Des Moines, IA — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:54:49 GMT

I don't think the OLPC photos are fake, but they do make the pictures look a little odd because the colors are so bright compared to their surroundings (who came up with that florescent green anyway?).

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Max Power, Chicago — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:01:48 GMT

The potter puppet pals video is hilarious. I'm sorry you can't enjoy it. It must be one of those defining the new age barrier things. Harry Potter. Harry Potter. ugh. Harry Potter. Harry Potter. yah. I can't stop singing that.

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AlexG — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:08:11 GMT

UoFL will have to "_erect_ suitable markers" with JB name. I wonder what shape will be chosen: phallic or a middle digit?