TIME, CNN suspend Journalist Fareed Zakaria

The US magazine Time’s editor Fareed Zakaria, who is the television host on CNN, has been suspended for using several paragraphs by another writer for his column in Time's August 20 issue.

The Indian-American journalist Zakaria has been suspended by both the magazine and the TV network CNN following his apology on Friday. In a statement he admitted his fault, saying he made a terrible mistake. "It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault", he said. 

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.

Zakaria was criticised for his column about gun control that published in Time's August 20 issue. It was alleged that the paragraphs of the article on the same subject were written before by Harvard University history professor Jill Lepore in The New Yorker magazine's April issue. 

The column titled 'The Case for Gun Control' began 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 US from the earliest years of the Republic". 

Lepore's article titled "Battleground America," begins with the paragraph, "As Adam Winkler, a constitutional-law scholar at UCLA, 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".

Source: breakingnewsonline.net