Fareed Zakaria Suspended For Plagiarism

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    Time editor-at-large and CNN host Fareed Zakaria was suspended from both places for a month on Friday after admitting to lifting parts of a story from the New Yorker.

    Conservative media watchdog Newsbusters was the first to spot the similarities between a Zakaria piece on gun control and an article by Jill Lepore that appeared in the New Yorker in April.

    The Atlantic Wire posted a statement from Zakaria on Friday afternoon, taking full responsibility for the incident:

     

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