The man's show is the most intelligent show that CNN has.  Non of those other broadcasters come close to matching him.

Fareed Zakaria's is the son of the late Rafiq Zakaria, the Deputy Leader of the Indian Congress Party during the Prime Ministership of the late Indiria Gandhi.  Rafiq Zakaria was also a prominent Islamic scholar and one of the world's leading authorities on Indian Islamic history.

Sad. I am sure he did not need any of the words.

It is indeed sad Storm.  It damages the guy's career. This guy could have made a good President of India.  Now it is ruined by some cable TV

Things happen. He may have been writing, cut and paste a piece of text to hold a thought and later forgot he did not write it and  integrated it without updating or citing it. Things happen. He is too good a writer to need help from the words of others.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...13e249eb2_story.html

Fareed Zakaria suspended for plagiarism by Time, CNN

Time magazine and CNN suspended columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria on Friday after he acknowledged that he plagiarized sections of another writer’s article about gun control.

The Washington Post, which publishes a separate column by Zakaria on its op-ed page, said it was reviewing Zakaria’s work for the newspaper.

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(Charles Sykes/AP) - Columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria has apologized to Time and CNN for lifting sections of another writer’s article on gun control.

 

Zakaria has apologized to CNN and Time over the column, which was published in Time’s Aug. 20 issue. A shorter blog post that included some of the plagiarized material appeared on CNN.com. The column in question has not appeared in The Post.

Zakaria lifted several passages from an article by historian Jill Lepore that was published by the New Yorker magazine in April. In her article, Lepore wrote: “Laws banning the carrying of concealed weapons were passed in Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813, and other states soon followed. . . .Similar laws were passed in Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma. As the governor of Texas explained in 1893, the ‘mission of the concealed deadly weapon is murder.’ ”

In his Time column, headlined “The Case for Gun Control,” Zakaria uses this wording:

“Laws that banned the carrying of concealed weapons were passed in Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813. Other states soon followed. . . . Similar laws were passed in Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma. As the governor of Texas (Texas!) explained in 1893, the ‘mission of the concealed deadly weapon is murder.’ ”

The all-but-identical language was first spotted by Cam Edwards, host of the NRA News radio program, and first published byNewsBusters.org.

In a brief interview Friday with The Post, Zakaria said he has apologized to Lepore. He had no further comment. Zakaria said in a statement earlier Friday that he made “a terrible mistake. . . . It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault.”

Zakaria is a multimedia star. In addition to his Sunday-morning program on CNN, “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” he writes regular columns for Time and The Post, as well as books about world affairs. CNN said that it won’t air Zakaria’s program Sunday and that it is reviewing his work. Time and CNN are owned by Time Warner.

Zakaria’s next column for The Post is scheduled to appear Wednesday.

“Fareed Zakaria is a valued contributor,” said The Post’s editorial page editor, Fred Hiatt. “We’ve never had any reason to doubt the integrity of his work for us. Given his acknowledgment today, we intend to review his work with him.”

In 2009, Zakaria was accused of using, without credit, material published by Atlantic magazine columnist Jeffrey Goldberg.

When I did journalism in college the professor used to praise the writing of a white girl until she found out that the girl plagarized when the university installed a scanning software program that could check for plagarization just by copying the article and hitting the scan button. She made an announcement that someone was plagarizing and the girl started to shake. Game over for that chick. Never saw her again. 

All Fareed had to do was quote the lady and he'd be safe.

Unfortunately, it was his Indian side that prevailed at the end...

Damn, he literally lifted complete passages whole! It is a real shame. A promising and clear voice is gone due to lazyness

This is most likely laziness and has nothing to do with his abilities. He may have outsourced his work to a research assistant who is prone to these errors. You’ve got to write these things on your own. RAs can only do back up research.

Lucas, You are very IGNORANT about who invented LIES, CHEATING, CUT-THROAT, EVIL and MURDER.  Do some thinking.

I am puzzled. Historical events that occured and recorded by a historian or any writer of fiction or non fiction cannot be used in the written works of other writers? I can understand word for word could be a problem, but the central thought could be used.  

I think his goose was cooked in down town mosque debackle. He return a prestigious award to the American in protest.

I bet yo are one of those who left the subcontinent with a false passport, got a job in the west with a fake resume, and got your servants back home emailing news articles that you publish here as your own work...

he needed to cite sources properly. He is very smart.

In fictional pieces(novels with historical content), is it necessay to quote sources?

What you call laziness is typical Indian mediocrity...

Most Indians living in the west use fake CVs to get jobs they are not qualified to do.. so they outsource to people back in India who email them reports they show here as their own work. This practice occurs in many disciplines not only in journalism, but also in software development and IT and in most jobs were reports can be delivered by email. It is not illegal, so many companies here turn a blind eye because hiring this way they know they are actually hiring several Indians for the price of one. Journalism is different because copyrights are core to the discipline and mistakes will be made public.

A fictional piece is a piece of literature which is also patented. Therefore if you copy one line of any piece of literature without citing the source you'll pay the price sooner or later.

I second that.

He would never run for any political office , he is too much of an independent thinker.

anything not yours....

Let us take this particular case. He copied word for word. That was wrong.

Had he read her article and simply worded it differently using the historical dates.

Was it necessary for him to cite the source?

The guy proved that he is a cheat....of course you guys seem to think that cheating is a sign of intelligence...

He was knowledgable on subjects. And always considered him to be a face that spoke on subjects researched by a multitude others.

Pakistani Hindu pilgrims allowed to cross into India after detention

Some Pakistani Hindu families have emigrated to India following attacks against minorities

Pakistan officials have allowed a group of Hindu pilgrims who were detained at the border to cross into India.

More than 200 Pakistani Hindus were held at the Wagah crossing near Lahore after local media reported that they intended to emigrate.

Although the group had valid pilgrimage visas, it was rumoured they planned to remain in India because of growing attacks against minorities in Pakistan.

They were allowed to pass after they assured officials they would return.

A spokesperson for the pilgrims, Santosh Puri, told the BBC the group had assured the authorities that "this is a pilgrimage" and no one intends to emigrate.

Pakistani rights activists say dozens of Pakistani Hindu families have moved to India to escape killings, abductions and forced conversions in recent years.

According to Indian officials, Pakistani Hindus have often entered India on visit visas, only to settle there permanently.

In particular, there have been reports of Hindu families leaving Pakistan's Sindh and Balochistan provinces for India to escape violence and discrimination.

Last week, a teenage Hindu girl was abducted in the city of Jacobabad, while about 11 Hindu traders remain missing after they were kidnapped for ransom.

There have also been several high-profile cases of alleged forced conversion to Islam

You don't get it, do you? It is not only about the words, but the sentences and the ideas they convey. He didn't provided a thought of his own, he in a mediocre way paraphrased somebody's ideas and didn't even bother to acknowledge the source he paraphrased.

This don't make any sense.  It is sucidal.  It is the wholesale copying of another writer.  All he had to do was quote the writer.  Such as,  "According to writer Jill Lepore based on her analysis of the book............... by .......". 

Actually, I didn't know he was such a mediocre writer until I saw the way he paraphrased someone else's work.

I had no idea that Pakistan has two million hindus. They are mostly in the Sindh. The former Pakistani cricketer Anil Dalpat is a hindu Pakistani.

Wally, Could you believe these Barbarians???

The correct spelling is "BARBADIANS"

Nehru you have to agree buddy it is madness when a man copy word for word from someone else then put it in an international magazine for the whole world to see.

He is probably the best paid plagiarist in the world...

Lucas, it seems that the man may have done it before:

http://www.theatlantic.com/int...ess-reporting/18260/#

You don't become a cheat overnight... I believe Harvard Uni must be re-reading his thesis right now in search for plagiarism.

He is one of the best writers out there, I am a big fan of his!

Oh well just a stumbling block on the way to better things!!

This is not about the present incident but the whole idea of how a historical occurance can be quoted in other pieces of work. Basically what u are saying, historical dates of events cannot be recorded on new works because somewhere someone may have citied it before. We know that history is written by different authors at times, so a person writing a new piece should cite an author even though he has not used their exact words but the dates of events.