On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:14 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > As I understand it Zakaria has admitted the offense and apologized for > it, and accepted the punishment. Based on what we know I think the > punishment is about right. I assume CNN and Time will complete a hard > target search of all of his published and broadcast writings over the last > X years to check for any additional instances. If this is part of a > consistent pattern, then he probably should not be allowed to come back. >
I totally disagree. Both places should fire him. This is one action in journalism that can't be defended. Ever. He basically cut and paste something and passed it off as his own. That gets you thrown out of college, why wouldn't it get you thrown out of Time Magazine/CNN? This is an insult to the journalist who put together the original story, it is an insult to the organization paying his salary and it is an insult to the readers who I guess he thinks are too stupid to have read the New Yorker article. And the folks who are defending him on the logical that maybe an intern wrote the column for him and did the cutting and pasting - well, Time isn't paying that intern to write columns, they're paying him. Again, that fraud, like his journalistic fraud, should be a firing offense. Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic made a plagiarism charge back in 2009: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/05/the-new-newsweek-now-with-less-reporting/18260/# In his commencement speech to Harvard (he gave the same one at Duke - self plagiarism), Zakaria said "you don't need an ethics course to know what you shouldn't do." Maybe Zakaria needs an ethics course instead. TVG -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
