Fareed Zakaria Faces New Plagiarism Accusations
by John Nolte 19 Aug 2014
The two anonymous plagiarism cops at Our Bad Media, whose
reporting resulted in the firing of BuzzFeed's
Benny Johnson last month, have published a new list of plagiarism charges,
this time aimed at
Fareed Zakaria and three news outlets that publish his work: CNN, Time Magazine,
and The Washington Post.
In April of 2012, Zakaria was
accused
of plagiarism and subsequently suspended by Time and CNN, the two outlets
that published the piece in question. Blaming research notes for the confusion,
Zakaria would eventually apologize to Jill Lepore and admit that he had "made
a terrible mistake" lifting paragraphs from her New Yorker piece.
During the suspension, Time
Magazine, The Washington Post, and CNN assured everyone that an exhaustive
review of Zakaria's previous work would be done to ensure this was an isolated
mishap. Eventually all three cleared
Zakaria and he returned to regular work (including his role as host of a
weekly CNN show).
The anonymous plagiarism cops at Our Bad Media claim to have
found 12 more instances of Zakeeria lifting the work of others without
attribution -- and all of the instances would have fallen under the Time, CNN,
and Washington Post investigations.
The claim is that, among others, Zakeeria plagiarized from
The New York Times, Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, Forbes, and Wikipedia. The examples
range from Zakaria lifting full paragraphs to a single sentence to facts and
figures produced by the research of others.
Our Bad Media closes its report by blasting CNN, Time and
The Washington Post:
These examples raise far more serious questions about the
integrity of Zakaria’s editors at CNN, TIME, and the Washington Post, all of
whom claimed to have conducted … reviews and found nothing. In the light of our
findings, we have to call bullshit. It took less than an hour and a few Google
searches for us at Our Bad Media to find an example of lifting in Zakaria’s
columns written before the 2012 plagiarism scandal. So we’re left to wonder:
did TIME, CNN, or the Washington Post actually conduct good faith reviews of
Zakaria’s work? Have they since?
Fareed
Zakaria
Fareed
Zakaria is the host of Fareed Zakaria GPS, an advisory council member for the Acumen Fund, a director at
the New America Foundation, and the editor-at-large for Time magazine.
Note: Fareed Zakaria
GPS is a CNN program.
Andrea Soros is a
director at the Acumen Fund, and George Soros’s daughter.
George
Soros is Andrea Soros, Jonathan Soros, & Robert Soros’s father, and was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation, the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Jonathan Soros is
a director at the New America Foundation, and George Soros’s son.
Walter
Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank),
was the chairman & CEO for CNN,
and a managing editor for Time magazine.
Fareed Zakaria
GPS is a CNN program.
Fareed
Zakaria is the host of Fareed Zakaria GPS, an advisory council member for the Acumen Fund, a director at
the New America Foundation, and the editor-at-large for Time magazine.
Sanjay
Gupta is the chief medical correspondent for CNN, and a columnist for Time magazine.
Strobe
Talbott was an editor for Time
magazine, and the president of the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Kate
Betts is a contributing editor for Time
magazine, and a friend of Melissa Soros.
Melissa
Soros is a friend of Kate Betts,
and married to Robert Soros.
Robert
Soros is married to Melissa Soros,
and George Soros’s son.
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