Indian-American Journalist Fareed Zakaria Faces Fresh Plagiarism Charges

Thursday, 21 August 2014, 23:31 IST
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Zakaria dismissed the claims, saying the bloggers' examples focus largely on statistics "that also appeared somewhere else," according to the Washington Post.

"These are all facts, not someone else's writing or opinions or expressions," the commentator was quoted as saying in an e-mailed statement to the Post.

In a statement cited by the Washington Post, Time said it "takes these charges very seriously" and is "reviewing them carefully".

Zakaria, widely known as a foreign affairs analyst, no longer works for Time.

The Washington Post's editorial page editor Fred Hiatt in an email to media wrote: "If I'm not mistaken, the newest allegations feature only one WP column, and when I looked at that I thought it was so far from a case of plagiarism that it made me question the entire enterprise."

In a statement, CNN said: "CNN has the highest confidence in the excellence and integrity of Fareed Zakaria's work."

"In 2012, we conducted an extensive review of his original reporting for CNN, and beyond the initial incident for which he was suspended and apologized for, found nothing that violated our standards. In the years since, we have found nothing that gives us cause for concern."

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Source: IANS