Plagiarism charges against CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria are back with a vengeance.
The team at “Our Bad Media” claims to have found more than two dozen episodes of “Fareed Zakaria GPS” that featured content that was “lifted without proper attribution.”
The content was lifted from outlets such as The New York Times, The Economist and National Review, along with academic papers and documentaries (as seen below).
“Zakaria will simply recite numbers and facts without any attribution. In others, he’ll cite a study or paper when he really only lifted someone else’s reporting on it,” according to the report. “In all of them, Zakaria fails to give credit where it’s due, either on the show itself or the blog posts that accompany most segments on CNN’s website.”
The most egregious example is placed front and center in the report.
Zakaria copied, almost verbatim, the introduction to an obscure Dutch documentary on the imprisonment and death of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian whistle-blower, into a segment on the story on his CNN show.
The resemblance is, umm, uncanny:
All in all, the “Our Bad Media” report concludes as follows:
“This latest installment shows the consistent, widespread practice of plagiarism by Fareed Zakaria extends to television. Rather than being an isolated mixup or lapse that happened a couple of years ago, Zakaria has unapologetically continued to appropriate others’ work to this day.”
Oh, and the report finishes on quite the high note by reporting that Zakaria’s first article ever written for The New Republic almost 30 years ago was plagiarized “over and over from The New York Times.”
Wow.
(H/T: Mediaite)