Zakaria suspended for copying other writer's work

mlurp · #1 (**permalink**) 08-11-2012, 01:02 PM

And CNN's Fraeed Zakaria, takes a hit. And if you think talk about gun control is not on the lips of some liberals, think again.

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.Zakaria suspended for copying other writer's work

By FRAZIER MOORE | Associated Press – 20 hrs ago. Posted 11 Aug. 2012 ....

NEW YORK (AP) — Columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria has apologized for lifting several paragraphs by another writer for use in his column in Time magazine. His column has been suspended for a month.

Zakaria said in a statement Friday 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.

Media reporters had noted similarities between passages in Zakaria's column about gun control that appeared in Time's Aug. 20 issue, and paragraphs from an article by Harvard University history professor Jill Lepore published in April in The New Yorker magazine.

In Zakaria's column, titled "The Case for Gun Control," he began one paragraph with the sentences: "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."

A corresponding passage in Lenore's New Yorker essay, titled "Battleground America," begins: "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."

In Zakaria's statement, he apologized "unreservedly" to Lepore, as well as to his editors and readers.

Besides serving as an editor-at-large at Time, Zakaria is a Washington Post columnist and the host of CNN's foreign-affairs show, "GPS."

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mlurp · #2 (**permalink**) 08-11-2012, 01:04 PM

Let me add this to the above.

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Originally Posted by mlurp

And CNN's Fraeed Zakaria, takes a hit. And if you think talk about gun control is not on the lips of some liberals, think again. Possibly on others lips to.

As they have

answer to our gang problems and those who sell guns to others on both sides of our boarders.

Zakaria suspended for copying other writer's work - Yahoo! News

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saltwn · #3 (**permalink**) 08-11-2012, 03:58 PM

The only gun controls I advocate are simple and sensible. Know how to use the damn thing and keep it out of the hands of the mentally insane. I think our technology can go a long way in answering the call to do those things.

mlurp · #4 (**permalink**) 08-12-2012, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

The only gun controls I advocate are simple and sensible. Know how to use the damn thing and keep it out of the hands of the mentally insane. I think our technology can go a long way in answering the call to do those things.

Yes your right but you have but one vote, or just one voice to share as others decide policies on this subject. AND i WOULD INCLUDE CRIMIALS TO. opps cap lock was on.

And not one person involved in policy making relies on much technology to dis arm the population as they see the 2nd amendment in a different light. And I never posted it and did post a second time to change it from liberals to others.

But we are talking about my comments not the topic overall. I point this out for one reason we have talked to death gun control.

And what we think or say means squat in DC. As the comment was made as the news channel behind me was speaking about it and one headline beside my post, on the same page was about it.

So can we discuss the real topic, "Zakaria suspended for copying other writer's work"

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