Fareed Zakaria, host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN and editor-at-large of Time magazine, was suspended Friday after admitting he plagiarized material in a news article. Management of Time magazine announced that Zakaria was suspended from office for a month, “pending further review” while CNN has not set a time limit for the suspension.
The sanctions were announced after Zakaria has apologized for having “borrowed” from an essay published recently in the New Yorker a few paragraphs about the regime to hold firearms for an article published this week in the Time magazine.
“Journalists in the media have shown that certain paragraphs of my article published in Time magazine this week have great similarities with the paragraphs of the essay published by Jill Lepore in the New Yorker on April 23. They are right. I made a terrible mistake . It is a serious error and the fault is entirely mine,” said Fareed Zakaria in the message of apology.
Ali Zelenko, Time magazine spokesman, said that the publication has accepted the apologies offered by Zakaria, but was forced to suspend him because he violated professional standards. CNN representatives stated that they had suspended Zakaria because he posted on his blog an article similar to the one that appeared in Time magazine, which also includes paragraphs that do not belong to him.
Fareed Zakaria, 48 years old, born in India, studied at Yale and Harvard universities and was manager editor of Foreign Affairs magazine from, and then editor of Newsweek International for ten years prior to joining Time magazine in 2010 as contributing editor and columnist.
Fareed Zakaria’s suspension occurred shortly after the recent media scandal which involved a journalist of the New Yorker, Jonah Lehrer. Writer and journalist specializing in articles on science, Lehrer resigned on July 30, after admitting that he invented several quotes that he attributed to the legendary American songwriter Bob Dylan, in his 2012 book “Imagine: How Creativity Works “.
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