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UPDATE: Time magazine also lifted its suspension of Fareed Zakaria for using in a column on gun control an unattributed quote from an article by historian Jill Lepore of Harvard in The New Yorker. The magazine’s statement followed CNN’s announcement earlier this afternoon that it had decided not to continue Zakaria’s suspension. CNN’s and Time’s statements follow:
CNN has completed its internal review of Fareed Zakaria’s work for CNN, including a look back at his Sunday programs, documentaries, and CNN.com blogs. The process was rigorous. We found nothing that merited continuing the suspension.
Zakaria has apologized for a journalistic lapse. CNN and Zakaria will work together to strengthen further the procedures for his show and blog.
Fareed Zakaria’s quality journalism, insightful mind and thoughtful voice meaningfully contribute to the dialogue on global and political issues. His public affairs program GPS will return on Sunday, August 26 at 10am ET on CNN/US and 8am ET on CNN/International.
CNN yanked Fareed Zakaria GPS on August 10 when his activity came to light. The blog post was also removed. Time magazine initially suspended Zakaria for a month but this afternoon reversed that decision and said his next column will appear in the September 7 issue. Here’s Time’s statement:
We have completed a thorough review of each of Fareed Zakaria’s columns for Time, and we are entirely satisfied that the language in question in his recent column was an unintentional error and an isolated incident for which he has apologized. We look forward to having Fareed’s thoughtful and important voice back in the magazine with his next column in the issue that comes out on September 7.
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This is a shameful whitewash. The guy is a serial and egregious plagiarist. Look at the evidence, at the exact language of his writings and the source material from which he lifted it–it’s very, very damning stuff.
I’m actually having a hard time finding the evidence. All I’ve heard is that one or two of the sentences of the column in question were slight rephrasings of lines in a New Yorker article, which isn’t exactly Stephen Glass territory. Can you provide a link?
He put everything he took from other articles in quotes. He just didn’t cite the specific names of the articles, which is apparently taboo in journalism.
It really was a bulls**t technicality.
False. Zakaria did not put Lapore’s words in quotes, and that’s precisely the problem. Check out the original NYTimes story about this, which reprints the two excerpts in question–the one from Jill Lapore’s original work, and the Zakaria version, where he stole her material, virtually word for word, making only cosmetic changes, and then tried to pass it off as his own original writing. He absolutely did not use quotation marks to denote the portions he was stealing. This is not a case of using unattributed quotes. This is a case of plagiarism, as egregious as it gets.
Seriously? Plagiarism is a “journalistic lapse”?
He should be fired.
How ‘rigorous’ could the ‘process’ of reviewing all of his articles and shows have been in under a week? But of course they had to get this statement out there before he is back on the air on Sunday – at this point, CNN needs Zakaria more than he needs them. And if Piers Morgan, whose reocrd as a tabloid editor and general gamer of the system (economic and otherwise) can get work at CNN, why can’t Zakaria?
He’s back on air a week from Sunday, according to the release.
MSNBC fired Pat Buchanan for less.
Are you kidding me? A 6-day suspension? THAT’S IT?! Good lord CNN, you truly are pure garbage.
I can’t believe how incredibly illogical these comments are. He had nothing to gain by purposefully copying such language – there was nothing original or revelatory in the excerpt. Zakaria is a brilliant mind and by all accounts fair and gentlemanly to his guest. His background and accomplishments are of the highest caliber. It is inconceivable that such a person would risk all for something that provides no value to his oeuvre.
I would hardly characterize the restatement of factual information as egregious plagiarism. It is entirely possible that this was an unintentional error – when one is as busy and prolific as he is, it is not impossible to write something down and forget where it came from later or to overlook an attribution that he most likely would have freely given. Negligent and sloppy perhaps, theft, unlikely.
I can not believe how utterly illogical these comments are. He had nothing to gain by deliberately copying such language–there was nothing revelatory or original in the excerpt.
Do you understand what happened now?
I know how easy it is to pick up a phrase from something you read, especially when the phrase is the best way to put something. How many ways can you say, “The rover landed on Mars.”?
But there’s too many phrases, that are far too close, for it not to have been deliberate copying with little attempt to make it fresh.
This is always the fallback defense for frauds and thieves who get caught stealing the work of others: that it was a “sloppy” and “accidental” mistake. For 25+ years I made my living as an author, and I can tell you that a writer absolutely knows the difference between his own words and someone else’s, and this defense is utter bullshit. Stephen Ambrose tried to use it, Doris Kearns tried to use it, Stephen Glass tried to use it, and it is ALWAYS a huge lie. These people are thieves. They are committing a fraud–an egregious, outrageous breach of trust–upon their employers and their readers. How pathetic is CNN that it would care more about rescuing (and thereby enabling) Zakaria more than it would care about keeping faith with its own (rapidly dwindling) audience? Truly pathetic.
“an unintentional error and an isolated incident for which he has apologized.”
No – intentional theft and usage of someone else’s words followed by a wholly unoriginal and transparently meaningless non-apology apology. No integrity from any of the parties involved.
“A brilliant mind” – to people who get the bulk of their opinions from cable news, I guess he seems to be, but I challenge you to give one concrete example of his “genius” (note: agreeing with your weltanschauung does not denote “genius”).
Fyi Asuka,
‘ a brilliant mind’ doesn’t equate ‘genius’. You used that word not me.
Clearly you are neither.
A month long suspension that lasts six days? Sounds like one of Lindsay Lohan’s jail sentences.
Elephants must forget?
He’s a liberal. You didn’t really expect him to be penalized for plagiarism, did you? Maybe if he said Obama shouldn’t be re-elected — after all, not toeing the party line is a mortal sin — but not for this.
And there you have it. He’s a liberal! Most thinking people are. A lot of people in the business know this is all a bit of a crock, including I might add, David Frum. I know one thing, his show is the only show on Sunday that doesn’t play the same old same old with talking heads raw, raw, rawing one party or the other with domestic political scab picking, all doing their best to obfuscate, pander and slander. I say hooray for the best voice on Sunday no longer silenced.
The fact is conservatives thinks he is a liberal. You’re a liberal if you support anything that comes out of Obama’s mouth.
Fareed should known better but he was too busy to go over the transcript when it was handed over to him by one of the assistants.
It was a silly mistake on his part but again he should known better.
Even more so considering the conservatives are well organized and
goes after prominent figures in the media who supports Obama policies. I figured Fareed was courting trouble when he made a fool out of that doofus Grover Norquist tax plan = economic recovery on his show.
“Legit,” are you Zakaria? In any case, your argument makes no sense. Either you are not familiar with the plagiarism incident in question (“unintentional error”?!) or you are too enamored with Zakaria (“a brilliant mind”?!) to be impartial. Zakaria is far from a brilliant mind – his chosen stance is one of agressive mediocrity: he recycles conventional, centrist wisdom.
Disappointed by CNN and Time here. Plagiarism is not a “journalistic lapse.” Plagiarism could get you kicked out of college, yet when you make it to the working world, it’s only one week paid vacation. What a joke!
Still waiting for an example of his “brilliance,” with or without petty name-calling.
Yes, I’m surprised they reinstated him so quickly but get over it. He f*ed up. Who hasn’t? He apologized. Maybe it was sloppy, careless, okay but outright intentional and malicious? Please. He’s not likely going to make that mistake again since all eyes will be watching him.
Why throw someone’s career down the drain just cause of one mistake?
Give a few months Zakaria, and the judgemental Internet vultures who cast stones behind virtual shadows (aka fake names) will be on to their next target, ready to lynch someone else.
“Sloppy! Careless! I love watching CNN!”
– Kristi (Last name withheld)
Hey schmucks, Zalkaria is a CIA intell officer. He didn’t plagiarize anything. He doesn’t write that stuff, the nitwit CIA intern did the plagiarizing. His only defender was Edward J Epstein now blogging on The Daily Beast. Epstein was “outed” as a CIA journalist back in the 1970s. I know this is far too complex, CIA journalists today? Under Obama? How could it be? His wife is also an operative. They are a Wilson/Plame couple. It’s not about plagiarism. He was in the White House during the planning of the Iraq invasion and when asked why he was there he said he was not sure. He said he was not sure why Cheney invited him. It’s not about liberal or conservative my friends – its about Operation Mockingbird Part 2.
With this, I will resume my suspension of watching Fareed on CNN.
And he didn’t even have to go on Oprah!
This is exactly why CNN’s ratings are non-existent. CNN management – you cannot run a 24-hour news channel with noted international journalist plagiarizing, billionaire boys club members (Anderson Cooper) and defunct politicians.
May we all do whatever is expeditious and then just apologize if caught?. Is there not enough untainted talent out there to replace the overrated fraud Zakaria? Journalism is not the place for people who lack clear and defined ethics. CNN is now self destructing at an accelerated pace. Soledad O’Brian is also a clown leftist who taints truth when she speaks. Better fire up the bilge pumps CNN you are listing hard to port.