Fareed Zakaria suspendohet nga puna për plagjiaturë

Fareed Zakaria suspendohet nga puna për plagjiaturë: Editori i  revistes 
Time, dhe gazetari i CNN kërkon falje për 'gabim i  tmerrshëm'
 
 
Fareed Zakaria Suspended For Plagiarism: Time Editor, CNN Host Apologizes  
For 'Terrible Mistake'  
 
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/10/fareed-zakaria-plagiarism-new-yorker-time_n_1764954.html?view=print&comm_ref=false)  
The Huffington Post | By Jack Mirkinson and Rebecca Shapiro 
 

 
 
   
 



 



 
Time editor-at-large and CNN host Fareed Zakaria was suspended from both  
places for a month on Friday after admitting to lifting parts of a story from 
 the New Yorker. 
Conservative media watchdog Newsbusters was the first to _spot_ 
(http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/08/10/talk-about-concealed-carry-fareed-za
karia-plagiarized-paragraph-history-)  the similarities between a Zakaria 
piece on gun control  and an article by Jill Lepore that appeared in the New 
Yorker in April. 
The Atlantic Wire _posted_ 
(http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2012/08/fareed-zakarias-take-gun-control-strikingly-similar-new-yorkers/55652/)  a 
statement from Zakaria on Friday afternoon, taking  full responsibility for 
the incident: 
"Media reporters have pointed out that paragraphs in my Time  column this 
week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay  in the 
April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible  mistake. 
It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize  
unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers."
Later, Time announced Zakaria's suspension: 
Time accepts Fareed's apology, but 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. As 
a result, we are suspending Fareed's column for a month, pending  further 
review.
CNN also said it was suspending Zakaria because he plagiarized the same  
material for a CNN.com blog post: 
“We have reviewed Fareed Zakaria’s TIME column, for which he has  
apologized. He wrote a shorter blog post on CNN.com on the same issue which  
included similar unattributed excerpts. That blog post has been removed and  CNN 
has suspended Fareed Zakaria while this matter is under  review.”
Zakaria took liberally from Lepore's piece on gun control.  
Here is one passage Lepore _wrote_ 
(http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/23/120423fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=all) : 
As Adam Winkler, a constitutional-law scholar at U.C.L.A.,  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. Laws banning the carrying of concealed weapons were  passed in 
Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813, and other states soon followed:  Indiana 
(1820), Tennessee and Virginia (1838), Alabama (1839), and Ohio  (1859). 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. 
To check it is the duty of every self-respecting,  law-abiding man."
 


Here is _Zakaria's similar paragraph_ 
(http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2121660-2,00.html) : 
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 U.S. from the earliest years of the  Republic. 
Laws that banned the carrying of concealed weapons were passed in  Kentucky 
and Louisiana in 1813. Other states soon followed: Indiana in 1820,  
Tennessee and Virginia in 1838, Alabama in 1839 and Ohio in 1859. 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. To  
check it is the duty of every self-respecting, law-abiding man."
Robert VerBruggen, a writer for National Review, _noticed_ 
(http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/313643/did-zakaria-borrow-ithe-new-yorkeri-robert-verbr
uggen)  other portions of Zakaria's article that hewed  closely to Lepore's 
as well. 
This is not the first time Zakaria has come under ethical fire. Columnist  
Jeffrey Goldberg _accused him_ 
(http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/05/the-new-newsweek-now-with-less-reporting/18260/#)  of lifting 
quotes without attribution in 2009. He  also caused controversy for his 
_series_ 
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/13/fareed-zakaria-admits-hes_n_861685.html)  of off-the-record conversations with President Obama,  though he 
said they were no different than those the president held with any  other 
journalist.