I guess it was about 2 years ago. Albert Flores got fired for plagiarism. He had a thing where he wrote weather related stories for the Express-News (KENS and the Express News have that partnership thing and a joint website
www.mysa.com) in a weekly column. The EN had been publishing them for a while (a couple years) a lowly copy editor was reviewing one of his columns before publication and had read the exact same story somewhere online. He dug up the online story and took it to his boss. The investigated and turns out a bunch of his columns were taken from other websites and not attribuited. Since credibility is a HUGE deal in the news biz, it embarassed the hell outta both KENS News and the EN. KENS was embarassed because even though hes a weatherman, he's still considered a journalist. The EN was the most embarassed becasue they hadnt been doing their job in researching and making sure his stories were his. They had been publishing plagiarised material. It hurts their credibility. So he was quitetly let go. There wasnt anything quiet about it, becasue the EN printed all kinds of retractions and stuff. I dont know what he's doing or if he's even living here anymore. I'd imagine he's pretty embarassed by it all.
For his side of the story, he maintains that he was so busy and pressured to meet deadlines, that he didnt realize what he had done.
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