CNN and Time magazine have suspended noted Indian-American journalist and author Fareed Zakaria for plagiarism. Zakaria admitted his guilt and has apologised for the same. He admitted that he had lifted portions of an article he wrote on gun control for Time, from the article by Harvard University professor of American history Jill Lepore.
Though he has issued an apology for the ethical lapse, CNN and Time magazine have suspended him for a month saying that Fareed’s act is a violation of their own standards for their columnists, which lay down conditions that the work must be factual and original, not only with regard to views but also in words.
48 year old Zakaria is graduate from Yale and Harvard, a CNN host, an editor at large at Time, a Washington Post columnist and an author. His column on gun control that appeared in the August 20 issue of Time magazine bear lose similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore’s essay in the April 23rd issue of The New Yorker.
He was charged of plagiarism and his column was suspended for a month by time magazine. Following suit CNN, on which Zakaria hosts a weekly foreign affairs show ‘Fareed Zakaria GPS’ also suspended the show for an indefinite period pending review.