Katie Couric’s so important that CBS paid a blogger/producer to have memories of childhood for her. Or she’s a replicant, just like in Blade Runner.

Melissa McNamara,who wrote Couric’s library reminiscences, got fired for lifting portions of WSJ writer Jeffrey Zaslow’s original essay.

Not that the stolen bits were deathless prose. Compare both on libraries’ appeal to kids:

Zaslow: “It’s a last-ditch place to go if they need to find something out.”

Couric: “It’s a last ditch place to go if they need to find something out.”

Zaslow: “Sure, there are still library-loving children, but books aren’t necessarily the draw.”

Couric: “Sure, children still like libraries, but books aren’t the draw.”

You’d think someone with a degree from Columbia could find rather better stuff to borrow.

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