August 11, 2012
CNN as good as Time Magazine Suspend Fareed Zakaria After Admission of Plagiarism
By Christine Haughney (08-10-12)
NY Times: Fareed Zakaria Story
Steven Senne/Associated Press Fareed Zakaria in May during Harvard University, where he perceived an titular degree.8:21 p.m. | Updated
Time repository as good as CNN dangling Fareed Zakaria, a bard as good as television host, upon Friday after he apologized for plagiarizing a New Yorker essay in his mainstay upon gun control in a August twenty emanate of Time.
Some passages in Mr. Zakaria's column, "The Case for Gun Control," closely tracked those in a longer essay upon guns in America by a historian Jill Lepore, which appeared in a Apr twenty-three emanate of The New Yorker.
The similarities in a texts were speckled by a conservative Web site NewsBusters, as good as fast widespread across a Internet after looming upon a media blog JimRomenesko.com.
Mr. Zakaria issued a make a difference Friday afternoon saying: "Media reporters have forked out which paragraphs in my Time mainstay this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in a Apr twenty-three emanate of The New Yorker. They are right. we made a distressing mistake. It is a critical relapse as good as a single which is entirely my fa! ult. we apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors during Time, as good as to my readers."
His admission is a second instance in reduction than two weeks of a distinguished bard owning up to an ethical lapse. Last week, a science bard Jonah Lehrer certified which he built quotes from Bob Dylan for his best-selling book "Imagine: How Creativity Works." Mr. Lehrer was forced to resign as a staff bard for The New Yorker, as good as his publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, pronounced it would stop print copies of a book.
Time pronounced it was suspending Mr. Zakaria's mainstay for a month, pending review. "Time accepts Fareed's apology, though what he did violates a own standards for a columnists, which is which their work must not only be factual though original; their views must not only be their own though their words as well," pronounced Ali Zelenko, a mouthpiece for a magazine.
CNN, like Time magazine, is owned by Time Warner.In a statement, CNN said: "We have reviewed Fareed Zakaria's Time column, for which he has apologized. He wrote a shorter blog post upon CNN.com upon a same emanate which enclosed identical unattributed excerpts. That blog post has been private as good as CNN has dangling Fareed Zakaria while this make a difference is underneath review."
Earlier this year, Mr. Zakaria was criticized for giving a derivation speech during Harvard which was really identical to a a single he had earlier given during Duke.
Mr. Zakaria, 48, balances a perfectionist schedule, you do work for mixed media properties. He is a CNN host, an editor during large during Time, a Washington Post columnist as good as an author. He was born in India as good as graduated from Harvard as good as Yale.
Fred Hiatt, a Washington Post's editorial page editor, pronounced he also would begin examining ! Mr. Zaka ria's work: "Fareed Zakaria is a valued contributor. We've never had any reason to doubt a firmness of his work for us. Given his admission today, we intend to examination his work with us."
The following passages yield an example of a exercise of Ms. Lepore's work in Mr. Zakaria's column:
Mr. Zakaria:
Adam Winkler, a highbrow of inherent law during UCLA, documents a actual history in Gunfight: The Battle over a Right to Bear Arms in America. Guns were regulated in a U.S. from a earliest years of a Republic. Laws which banned a carrying of secluded weapons were upheld in Kentucky as good as Louisiana in 1813. Other states soon followed: Indiana in 1820, Tennessee as good as Virginia in 1838, Alabama in 1839 as good as Ohio in 1859. Similar laws were upheld in Texas, Florida as good as Oklahoma. As a administrator of Texas (Texas!) explained in 1893, a "mission of a secluded lethal arms is murder. To check it is a avocation of every self-respecting, law-abiding man."
Ms. Lepore:
As Adam Winkler, a constitutional-law academician during U.C.L.A., demonstrates in a remarkably nuanced brand new book, "Gunfight: The Battle Over a Right to Bear Arms in America," firearms have been regulated in a United States from a start. Laws banning a carrying of secluded weapons were upheld in Kentucky as good as Louisiana in 1813, as good as other states soon followed: Indiana (1820), Tennessee as good as Virginia (1838), Alabama (1839), as good as Ohio (1859). Similar laws were upheld in Texas, Florida, as good as Oklahoma. As a administrator of Texas explained in 1893, a "mission of a secluded lethal arms is murder. To check it is a avocation of every self-respecting, law-abiding man."
A chronicle of this essay appeared in print upon 08/11/2012, upon page B2 of a NewYork book with a headline: CNN as good as Time Suspend Journalist After Admission of Plagiari! sm.
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