Time
magazine columnist and CNN host Fareed Zakaria has been suspended for
plagiarism on Friday night, after a blog discovered similarities between
his recent Time column on gun control and a New Yorker essay by Jill
Lepore on the same topic.
Zakaria admitted to plagiarism in a statement where he himself labeled the deed a “terrible mistake.”
“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. “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.”
The 48-year-old journalist, who was born in India,
became editor-at-large at Time in 2010. He is the host of CNN’s foreign
affairs show GPS. Time magazine and CNN, both owned by Time Warner,
decided to suspend Zakaria for the violation. His CNN suspension is
indefinite while Time has suspended him for only a month, “pending
further review.”
Conservative website NewsBusters was the first to break the story which rapidly spread across the internet.
Fareed
Zakaria also writes for the Washington Post, which said they will be
scrutinizing the fallen journalist’s work moving forward.
This is
not the first time Zakaria has been accused of plagiarism. According to a
Huffington Post report, he was accused by columnist Jeffrey Goldberg in
2009 for pulling quotes from his work without a citation.
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