Time and CNN suspend Fareed Zakaria for plagiarism
This May 21, 2012 file photo shows columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria attending the 71st Annual Peabody Awards in New York. — Photo by AP
CNN host and Time magazine contributing editor-at-large Fareed Zakaria was suspended by his employers on Friday after he acknowledged copying material for a recent column he wrote about gun control from another writer.
Time said it was suspending Zakaria for one month, “pending further review,” and CNN said it had also suspended him for his journalistic misstep. CNN put no time limit on its suspension.
The sanctions came after Zakaria issued a public apology for borrowing from a recent New Yorker essay about gun control for a column he wrote for Time this week.
“Media reporters have pointed out that paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore’s essay in the April 23rd issue of the New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake,” Zakaria wrote in his apology.
“It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault.”
Ali Zelenko, a spokesman for Time, said the magazine accepted Zakaria’s apology but felt compelled to act against him because he had violated its standards for all columnists.
“Their work must not only be factual but original; their view must not only be their own but their words as well,” Zelenko said.
CNN said its suspension of Zakaria was due to the fact that he wrote a blog post on CNN.com that was similar to his Time column and included “similar unattributed excerpts.”
Indian-born Zakaria studied at Yale and Harvard, was managing editor of Foreign Affairs magazine and then editor of Newsweek International for ten years before moving to CNN in 2010 to host Fareed Zakaria GPS.
Friday’s public embarrassment for Zakaria followed a recent scandal involving New Yorker staff writer Jonah Lehrer, who resigned on July 30.
Lehrer, a science journalist and author, quit after admitting that he made up quotes from legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in his book “Imagine: How Creativity Works.”
Farid Zakria is a renowned analyst…one mistake doesn't rubbish him. we need people who are critical of Pakistan that show the mirror to our rulers.
When one gets caught, most likely that's not the first time one has committed that crime or act. FZ has lost the journalistic credibility and even after his rehabilitation he will not be trusted for his work.
Guys first of all, he is not an Indian but an Indian born groomed in USA. It is not that we Indians and Pakistanis do not have cheats. So lets accept they we all got our cheats and it is individual act. I feel bad for him but he should not have been doing this even though I am a Pakistani.
Anyways, lets stop pointing at each other just because a cheat was caught. PEACE
What is difference between plagiarism and putting some body else'thoughts btween quotes,just to support your views.Most of the lournalists do that In our country most of the journalists copy other people ideas with out acknowledging and are stlill considered respectable Our T.V anchors hardly make any effort at any original analysis and still like to be labeled as famous experts.It is the reader or the viewer who should be able to distinguish between original and the copied. Zakaria always pretended to be very clever.
Fareed Zakaria has achieved a rare status in the US media due to his brilliance and objectivity. While he might have made a small mistake, which he could have said was due to confusion, he admitted his mistake. As to Pakistani people and culture, they cheat 1 million times worse than Fareed Zakaria. They lie outright all the time. Internationally everyone hates Pakistan. Nobody trusts them. Pakistani people, please look in the mirror before being so nasty to Fareed Zakaria.
After migrating from india he achieved in the land of oppertunity a status and recognition which very very few migrants achieve.We must give the devil his due.Rivals took full advantag of his BLUNDER he made.After all he is a human being and greed for fame makes a man blind.
FZ I am waiting for you to make a comeback……
The most bitter words FZ had to hear was from Musharraf,who told him,(They know what we got) during an interview regarding Pakistans capablities incase of an attack.
I wish our journalists learn from this.
- at least he admitted and apologized for what he did because he has some self respect still left. a pakistani, on the other hand, will NEVER admit and will quickly blame foreign hand becaause he has NO SELF RESPECT.