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CNN pulled the plug today on Fareed Zakaria GPS because of plagiarism by the host in a TIME magazine column and a blog post for the network. “We have reviewed Fareed Zakaria’s Time column, for which he has apologized. He wrote a shorter blog post on CNN.com on the same issue which included similar unattributed excerpts. That blog post has been removed and CNN has suspended Fareed Zakaria while this matter is under review,” said CNN in a statement Friday afternoon. Broadcasts of Your Money With Ali Velshi will air in GPS’s 10 AM Sunday time slot and The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer will air in the show’s 1 PM slot. Zakaria was suspended by TIME earlier in the day after it came to light that portions of a column that he wrote on gun control for the magazine’s August 20 issue closely resembled those from an April 23 issue of The New Yorker on guns by Jill Lepore. Zakaria admitted the plagiarism in a statement after TIME suspended him. “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 23 issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers,” he said. Fareed Zakaria GPS has been on CNN since June 1, 2008. Both TIME magazine and CNN are owned by Time Warner.
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Too bad. Always thought he was one of the more thoughtful pundits out there. Guess not.
Oh, he is certainly thoughtful…just someone else’s thoughts.
Yeah, exactly–and just like the other notorious plagiarists and ethically challenged journalists of our day (i.s. Doris Kearns Goodwin, who paid a huge and confidential settlement in her case; Mike Barnicle, who made often was caught making up quotes back in his columnist days), this bloviating fraud Fareed will get a complete pass from his media pals and soon be welcomed back. Pathetic.
Yes, Barnicle fired from Boston Globe for “borrowing” from a Geo. Carlin book.
Journalism is one of the few fields where someone could break the law and simply be suspended.
I have always enjoyed his reports on CNN. While I don’t agree with plagerism, I think the quality of his work to date deserves the benefit of the doubt. Firing him would be excessive, suspension is more than adequate.
The guy’s a journalist. Journalists trade on trust. He is now proven to be untrustworthy.
I’m sure there are others under him on the ladder more worthy of the exposure he’s receiving.
You sound so pathetic, Mark.
What are you talking about?
Fire the guy, now. And yale should fire him too.
LOL.
He’s a fake intellectual. Another joke on CNN
I don’t get it. As a reporter once told me, “It’s so easy to attribute material.” (source: Nat Segaloff)
Fareed Zakaria is an insufferable dweeb. He not that smart, but he’s smart enough to know that keeping his job at CNN depends on promoting their “America in decline” agenda.
In his attempt to score some easy points with his masters, he did a rush piece, and stole someone else’s work on a topic he probably hasn’t studied up on enough to comment.
Everyone has an opinion on gun control one way or the other, but writing a column about it takes time and research and (your own) thoughts. Dude got lazy.
Why is it so hard for people do just do the work and research?! WHY? They should fire him. There’s 200 other equally qualified journalists who would KILL to have his job – and salary. I hate all of these plagerists, like Doris Kearns Goodwin — how she got her job back is anyone’s guess. And this latest dude, Johan Lehrer. They ALL suck and should be banished, forever, from ever working in the media again.
Time / CNN should suspend him not for plagiarism but for stupidity… how the heck did he not think someone would notice – I mean these aren’t small publications.
Boy, this really isn’t CNN’s year (or decade), is it? P.S. Points to Jamesb3 for a HILARIOUS comment.
Very surprised. Besides the ethical lapse, it’s just stupid. It’s not like he cribbed from some unknown web site or obscure book. He stole from the New Yorker. Moron. We all make mistakes, and he should be allowed one, but if they find he stole from somewhere else (it’s rarely just a one-time thing) then they have to can him. Nice apology though.
Smart, credible, honest, hard-working journalists like Seymour Hershey are as rare as uranium isotopes now.
I have to admit real surprise, I’ve read a lot of his columns and he normally references other works frequently.
Perhaps that’s the problem with having a show, writing articles for Time, CNN, Washington Post, and joining any panel that will have him. You can only do so much.
Do not understand all the “love” for Zakaria. He never really had original thoughts, and was unabashedly uber-Globalist. With the EU collapsing and the world economy in the tank…20th Century Kumbaya Globalism is not practical in 21st century
Wow, I didn’t think there were still real world consequences for plagiarism. Let’s hope perjury makes s similar comeback.
Doesn’t say if it was deliberate or simple man-think. You know, when a woman presents an idea to a man and he utterly rejects it, only to have this brilliant inspiration a few weeks later which is exactly the same idea, only now he’s sure he thought of it himself?
Seriously Abigail? A feminist interpretation of this? What’s your therapist say?
That’s right, Abigail, every idea ever voiced or written by man originated from a woman at least a month earlier. It’s the eternal global conspiracy of us men against you women, don’t you know that? Of course you do! You thought of that first too!
What a fool and an idiot this man is. He should know the code of journalism…never to copy others’ work and claim it as your own. Did he actually think he was going to get away with this? Dimwit! Maybe a month off will help him to realize never to do this again.
why fareed, why! why have you done this!!!
At most colleges, if you are caught plagiarizing its an automatic fail and at the top universities, you can be expelled. I think a high-profile career at a major network should require an even higher standard.
“I think a high-profile career at a major network should require an even higher standard.”
Yeah, but this is CNN we’re talking about, so standards are so low as to be immaterial.
Just what I was thinking.
And yet when I go to pitch to Sony and they pitch my ideas to another writer and give him the job the WGA does absolutely nothing.
Glad someone somewhere cares about this as Hollywood doesn’t.
To steal thoughts from one person is plagiarism to steal thoughts from several people: research
Not a mistake. Not a lapse. A purposeful theft, followed by a playbook scripted apology. Nothing surprises any more. Fareed should be “fareed” from his contract with Time.
How stupid can you get? The New Yorker??? If you’re going to plagiarize at least plagiarize something people don’t read? Mindblowingly dumb.
If the powers that be never jailed the crooks that stole all the publics money with the banking charade of mortgage fraud, why so indignant to remove one of the best journalists around? It’s the equivalent of a fling with a mistress. Forgive the poor judgement of an overworked, over ambitious lapse in logical thought process. He will not repeat the error and will be all the better for it. He has not earned the dubious distinction of being snapped up by the “home of the fallen” network. You know who.
Thank goodness CNNs true colors are revealing that they really are stupid and incompetent.
Is this the first time hes done this, or just the first time he got caught? Perhaps its time to take a closer look at his other work.
If this had happened at FOX News they’d be condeming the whole network, I wonder how much time Howie Kurtz will give this on “Reliable Sources”?
This isn’t like forgetting to put money in the parking meter, or getting distracted and not turning off the oven after dinner. He had to DECIDE to do this. And if he plagiarized this time, he’s probably done it before. Let’s hope that there’s a legitimate reporter/columnist out there who will investigate THAT! Regardless, his career should be over. The only way news organizations can eradicate this is if their response to it is swift, severe and sure.
“They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault.” = Sorry I didn’t take the time to re-write properly and perhaps throw in a link to a completely different source to throw everybody off my track. That’s basic Journalism 101 in 2012 and after all, I’m paid for being a professional. My bad. Back to business as usual.
All sarcasm aside — if he doesn’t lose all of his gigs over this, we can just pack it in. We need at least to keep up the appearance of some sort of professional standard. Daily evidence to the contrary not withstanding (my fave example still is the completely fabricated announcement of Angelina Jolie giving birth to her first child. It was published by oh so many.)
(BTW: Why exactly do pros who work for print, TV or radio subscribe to and read little blogs by Unknowns first thing in the morning? They’re getting paid for being “superior thinkers” and ought to be writing their original work, using their access to primo sources, keeping interns busy veryfying stuff according to the rules. Okay, so slumming for inspiration has become something of a new standard, I guess?)
The NEWSROOM got nothing on reality. Not a thing.
Zakaria says he made a “terrible mistake”. It is still not clear what his state of mind was. Does he mean terrible mistake like, “I never should have started embezzling from the bank after decades of honest service.”. Or does he mean “terrible mistake” like “I mistakenly read Zantac as Xanax and my nursing patient died.”. Is this an ethical mistake or a procedural mistake? By the way Zakaria’s work as a writer or a TV panelist is far superior to his work as a moderator. As a talk show moderator he comes over as so nice that the talk show guests sometimes simply ignore him and talk to each other.