CNN announced Friday that it fired a news editor who the network said had serially plagiarized articles.
Marie-Louise Gumuchian, who reported on Africa, Europe and the Middle East from CNN’s London bureau, was terminated after one of her stories was flagged during the editing process last week. An internal investigation uncovered “about 50 published stories” that contained plagiarized material, according to the network.
CNN was still investigating, but the company said in an editor’s note that the instances of plagiarism found in Gumuchian’s articles have been removed.
“Trust, integrity and simply giving credit where it’s due are among the tenets of journalism we hold dear, and we regret that we published material that did not reflect those essential standards,” the note read.
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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.
Sen. Rand Paul immediately inroduced a ‘Sense of the Senate’ resolution that in effect said ‘So? What’s the big deal?’
I thought CNN had adopted the Fox model of entertainment, long ago.
She’ll get the corner office at Fox.
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.