CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Busted and Suspended
All things are never as they seem and everyone has a secret including the talking heads on TV, yet that shouldn’t come as a surprise. Sadly I remember the time when CNN and TIME magazine were considered impeccable sources. Not so much these days as this story suggests:
Time suspended columnist Fareed Zakaria for plagiarism today after he apologized for swiping parts of a New Yorker piece by Jill Lepore on gun control, reports the Huffington Post. “I made a terrible mistake,” Zakaria wrote in a statement published at Atlantic Wire. “It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to (Lepore), to my editors at Time, and to my readers.” The magazine followed with its monthlong suspension of Zakaria, who also hosts a show at CNN. The conservative site NewsBusters first spotted the striking similarity between one long paragraph in particular, which quotes a UCLA professor. See for yourself here.
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I am with Mike on this one. I have read Zakaria’s stuff and watched him a lot on CNN and have always thought him to be an outstanding journalist. This, in the world of journalistic ethics, is a big No No and one that is easily followed. There is no big problem in knowing whether the material you are using is your original material or something you took from someone else or the product of your first hand research.
From what I’ve seen and heard of Zakaria, he is a fine, intelligent fellow. Let’s forgive him and realize we’re all human and make mistakes. Jeez! Forgive & Forget! Problem is people who think they’re perfect never forget other people’s mistakes.
Hmmm…I don’t know Rick. I can forgive him but I don’t know if I can trust his reporting going forward. To steal the words of another without attribution disturbs me. We go out of our way here at MMA to attribute and we’re hardly TIME magazine 🙂