Even more bad news for CNN: Fareed Zakaria... PLAGIARISM

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Fareed Zakaria has been accused of plagiarism.


From the Huffington Post:

Time columnist and CNN host Fareed Zakaria has apologized profusely for apparently lifting a paragraph out of The New Yorker for a recent Time column.


Conservative media watchdog Newsbusters was the first to spot the similarities between a Zakaria piece on gun control and an article by Jill Lepore that appeared in the New Yorker in April.


Zakari's work:


As Adam Winkler, a constitutional-law scholar at U.C.L.A., demonstrates in a remarkably nuanced new book, "Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America," firearms have been regulated in the United States from the start. Laws banning the carrying of concealed weapons were passed in Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813, and other states soon followed: Indiana (1820), Tennessee and Virginia (1838), Alabama (1839), and Ohio (1859). Similar laws were passed in Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma. As the governor of Texas explained in 1893, the "mission of the concealed deadly weapon is murder. To check it is the duty of every self-respecting, law-abiding man."



Lepore's work:

Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA, documents the actual history in Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. Guns were regulated in the U.S. from the earliest years of the Republic. Laws that banned the carrying of concealed weapons were passed in Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813. Other states soon followed: Indiana in 1820, Tennessee and Virginia in 1838, Alabama in 1839 and Ohio in 1859. Similar laws were passed in Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. As the governor of Texas (Texas!) explained in 1893, the "mission of the concealed deadly weapon is murder. To check it is the duty of every self-respecting, law-abiding man."



Apparently this isn't the first time. Jeffrey Goldberg accused him of lifting quotes without attribution in 2009.



Full story here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/10/fareed-zakaria-plagiarism-new-yorker-time_n_1764954.html

[Whisp]

1. ouch. He was one of the very very few people there I could listen to

without a puke bucket nearby.

He's a smart dude, I don't know why he'd take a chance like that. But then CNN sort of picks up the ones with cred problems, like that asshole Piers Morgan.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

2. Must be the guy is here

on H1-b visa.

[Sherman A1]

3. Okay,

He lifted a paragraph that was a quote or series of quotes from another book which had full attribution. I get that this is probably not the best idea in the world, yet they are quotes from an outside source.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. well, he did try to change up some of the words. lol

[Whisp]

5. not to defend him or anything

that paragraph is mostly made of of facts - years, names dates and sequence of events.

you can't really 'change up' that sort of stuff.

[Motown_Johnny]

6. That was my thought. Most of it is stating facts and a quote.

I see the similarities and it is very possible that he just changed up a few words to make it less obvious that he was stealing it. Even so, It isn't that bad.


I still like the guy. With any luck this is just a blip.