Zakaria suspended for copying other writer's work

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Zakaria suspended for copying other writer's work


Aug 10, 7:26 PM EDT

Zakaria suspended for copying other writer's work

By FRAZIER MOORE

NEW YORK (AP) -- Time editor-at-large and CNN host Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by both the magazine and the network for lifting several paragraphs by another writer for his use in a recent Time column.

Zakaria apologized Friday, declaring in a statement he made "a terrible mistake," adding, "It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault."

In a separate statement, Time spokesman Ali Zelenko said the magazine accepts Zakaria's apology, but would suspend his column for one month, "pending further review."

"What he did violates our own standards for our columnists, which is that their work must not only be factual but original; their views must not only be their own but their words as well," Zelenko said.

Shortly afterward, CNN said it had removed from the network's website a blog post that "included similar unattributed excerpts," and taken Zakaria off the air indefinitely.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WRITER_APOLOGIZES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-08-10-1

More examples of copying in the article.

Friday news dump.


Sorry, plagiarism is intentional theft, not a "mistake."


I hope he is fired. Yet another Reaganite posing as something else. Yet another Trojan horse.

Then again, Mike Barnicle got fired for plagiarizing and now he's an MSNBC regular, holding Scarborough's hand. Also a poser. Pretends to be a Democratic populist. So, he's, you know, part of the "balance" on that show.

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1. Can't stand the guy

He's a Ryan disciple

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2. Does that mean he'll have to stop pretending he converted from Reaganite to Democrat?

Then again, you don't have to convert much from Reaganite in order to be a New Democrat.