Fareed Zakaria who is not only a CNN Muslim leftist hack, but also an Obama foreign policy adviser is a plagiarist, that’s common knowledge. But when leftist site like Politico calls you out for plagiarism, then you know you’re really bad.
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For the past month, two anonymous media watchdogs have been accusing the journalist Fareed Zakaria of serial plagiarism. Across multiple reports, the authors at Our Bad Media have cited at least three dozen instances in which the CNN host and Washington Post columnist appeared to have lifted passages from various publications and websites for unattributed reuse in his books and magazine articles and on his television program. Their most recent report, focusing on 24 instances of plagiarism on his CNN show, is the most damning to date.
This week, I conducted a review of the reports to determine whether the instances they cited truly qualified as plagiarism. I also asked two jourrnalism ethics experts — Robert Drechsel, the James E. Burgess chair and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Kelly McBride, the vice president for academic programs of The Poynter Institute — to review the reports. They came to the same conclusion I did: Fareed Zakaria plagiarized.
“Most of the examples provided and analyzed by the bloggers seem to fall into the realm of what is now being called ‘patch writing’ — using material generated by someone else, without attribution, but rewritten slightly so one cannot call it verbatim copying,” Drechsel wrote in an email to POLITICO. “It falls within what I would consider plagiarism. Other examples cited by the bloggers do appear to be verbatim.”
“It seems obvious that Fareed was overly reliant on his source material,” McBride wrote. “It’s plagiarism. Low-level. But plagiarism.”