Aug. 27, 2012
8:25 am
Fareed Zakaria apologized to viewers for plagiarism as he returned to his CNN show “GPS” on Sunday:
A final personal note. As some of you know, two weeks ago, I wrote a column in Time Magazine and neglected to quote a New Yorker essay by Jill Lepore that I drew closely from.
I was not trying to pass the work off as my own. I prominently cited the book, “Gun Fight” by Adam Winkler that contained all the historical data that both Lepore and I wrote about it, but I absolutely should have quote[d] or cited the New Yorker essay as well.
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Fareed Zakara, CNN (transcript)
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Andrew Beaujon
Aug. 22, 2012
7:41 am
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Former Newsweek senior editor Jerry Adler tells Daniel D'Addario
he wrote a piece for the magazine that ran under Fareed Zakaria's byline in 2010, an
introduction "for a stand-alone commemorative issue on the environment pegged to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report."
Knowing full well that the piece would go out under Mr. Zakaria’s name, the two-time National Magazine Award finalist says, he wrote the five-paragraph piece, never discussing it with the putative author. “He made some changes, maybe. But he didn’t say, ‘Do this and don’t tell anyone.’ It came to me through channels.”
Tony Emerson was managing editor of Newsweek International, which Zakaria edited. He tells D'Addario, "In team journalism there’s a lot of debates over who deserves the byline. It sounds to me like he could have pitched in with Fareed and is angry he wasn’t credited for his contributions.”
For what it's worth, I spoke with Adler last Wednesday after an anonymous tip pointed me to him, and he didn't sound in the least angry about Zakaria; "This happened all the time," he told me about byline-swapping. He said he had "no firsthand knowledge" of Zakaria's byline landing atop anyone else's work, and said "I don’t consider it a mortal sin."
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Andrew Beaujon
Aug. 20, 2012
7:28 am
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A plagiarism fracas has led Fareed Zakaria to decide "There's got to be some stripping down,"
he tells The New York Times' Christine Haughney. He'll get some air into his superhuman schedule by giving fewer speeches, lessening some of his board work.
Along the way to becoming one of the "favorite dinner companions of the power elite," Haughney writes, Zakaria undertook too many extensions of his personal brand to give his writing as much attention as he'd like. In an interview in his CNN office, Zakaria offered an explanation for what happened, one that doesn't involve him taking the fall for a ghostwriter or a research assistant screwing up.
The mistake, he said, occurred when he confused the notes he had taken about Ms. Lepore’s article — he said he often writes his research in longhand — with notes taken from “Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America,” by Adam Winkler (W.W. Norton, 2011), a copy of which was on his desk at his CNN office.
Michigan journalism professor Charles Eisendrath gives Haughney an economic explanation for the star system at big outlets: "The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists,” he tells her. “As long as it’s cheaper to brand individual personalities than to build staff and bolster their brand, they will do it."
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Steve Myers
Aug. 16, 2012
4:54 pm
Time magazine has finished reviewing Fareed Zakaria's columns
after he lifted a few lines from a New Yorker story. The magazine is "entirely satisfied that the language in question in his recent column was an unintentional error and an isolated incident." The column will resume Sept. 7.
The statement from Time spokeswoman Ali Zelenko:
We have completed a thorough review of each of Fareed Zakaria’s columns for TIME, and we are entirely satisfied that the language in question in his recent column was an unintentional error and an isolated incident for which he has apologized. We look forward to having Fareed's thoughtful and important voice back in the magazine with his next column in the issue that comes out on September 7.
CNN has also completed its review of Zakaria's work and says he will return to his show, "GPS," on Sunday, August 26.
The statement reads:
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Andrew Beaujon
Aug. 15, 2012
9:51 am
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The Washington Post has corrected a story that
accused Fareed Zakaria of lifting a quote from author Clyde V. Prestowitz:
This story incorrectly states that in the initial hardcover edition of his 2008 book, “The Post-American World,” Fareed Zakaria failed to cite the source of a quote taken from another book. In fact, Zakaria did credit author Clyde V. Prestowitz.
The Post added this to the correction late Wednesday:
Endnotes crediting Prestowitz were contained in hardcover and paperback editions of Zakaria’s book. The Post should have examined copies of the books and should not have published the article. We regret the error and apologize to Fareed Zakaria.
Tuesday, The Post's Paul Farhi reported (
and I repeated) Clyde V. Prestowitz's contention that Fareed Zakaria
didn't cite a quote of his in Zakaria's book "The Post-American World."
"This charge is false, as 10 minutes' work by the Washington Post would have shown,"
David Frum writes. The 2009 paperback edition of the book does contain a citation, Frum writes. That directly contradicts a sentence in Farhi's piece.
I asked Farhi whether he had done anything to verify Prestowitz's complaint of quote-stealing by Zakaria. We agreed that the conversation would be off-the-record, so I won't quote Farhi's answer. But I don't need to. The pages speak for themselves.
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Steve Myers
Aug. 14, 2012
2:07 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
Aug. 14, 2012
11:13 am
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