Time, CNN suspend Fareed Zakaria

Time magazine and CNN have suspended columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria for plagiarizing several paragraphs from another writer and using them in one of his columns in Time.
In a statement issued on Friday, Zakaria, 48, said he made “a terrible mistake,” adding, “It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault,” The Associated Press reported. Time spokesman Ali Zelenko said in a separate statement that the magazine accepted Zakaria's apology but would suspend his column for one month, "pending further review," and CNN said it had also suspended him for his journalistic mistake.
“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,” Zelenko said.
“As a result, we are suspending Fareed’s column for a month, pending further review,” he added.
Media reports had pointed out striking similarities between passages in a Fareed Zakaria column that was published in Time's August 20 issue and paragraphs from an article by Jill Lepore, a Harvard University history professor, which appeared in April in The New Yorker magazine.
CNN issued a statement on Friday saying that it would be suspending the weekly foreign-affairs show “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”

CNN put no time limit on its suspension.
The CNN statement said, “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, who studied at Yale and Harvard, became the managing editor of Foreign Affairs magazine in 1992, and then worked as the editor of Newsweek International from 2000 to 2010. In 2010, he became editor-at-large of Time and also moved to CNN to host Fareed Zakaria GPS. 
Source: Presstv