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
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