Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by Time and CNN for plagiarism, following revelations that he lifted text for a column on gun control which appeared in the August 20 issue of Time
magazine from an article on the same subject by Jill Lepore which appeared in the April 23 issue of The New Yorker earlier this year. The transgression was discovered and publicized by NewsBusters, a conservative Web site which
keeps watch for liberal media bias, hypocrisy, and general malfeasance. As a result of the NewsBusters expose, Time has suspended Zakaria's column for a month, and CNN has suspended him as a contributor "while this matter is under review." The NYT Media
Decoder blog has posted part of
the text of Zakaria's plagiarized version, and the original version by Lepore, for comparison.