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Fareed Zakaria Suspended For Plagiarism: Apologizes For 'Terrible Mistake'

The fact that Fareed Zakaria was a Time editor he should have known better and I don't believe for a second it was "mistake". Now it makes me wonder about his entire career. Geez, stealing from the New Yorker no less. Ahh, it's too bad because I did respect him and felt confident that what he to say was coming from his insight. Not anymore.
 
I think this just goes to show how gullible people are.
 
Moot said:
The fact that Fareed Zakaria was a Time editor he should have known better and I don't believe for a second it was "mistake".
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I'm sure he meant mistake in that he shouldn't have deicded to do it rather than mistake as in accidental copy-and-paste from the wrong document.
 
JohnWOlin said:
I'm not saying he doesn't need to be punished but the only career he is hurting is his own.
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A system that allows fraud does not only hurt his career. It doesn't just hurt all journalists either, it hurts all of us in theory, since theoretically we rely on journalism for factual news and investigation of powers.

We see this with some Asian business right now, the U.S. makes the massive R&D investment, releases new IP, and they steal the technology and implement it for much cheaper immediately, without all that R&D overhead. They competitively win, yet clearly they could not win if they could not steal, and if the U.S. hadn't been investing so much of their own money into that R&D. They are stealing the equivalent of all that R&D investment. Actually more, because they probably only steal the successfull R&D. Same argument with U.S. healthcare, we basically subsidze the worlds R&D cost, and then we wonder why our healthcare costs more than Europe? dur.

As to what punishment is appropriate, I don't think video game reviews have as much at stake as professional journalism, I leave it to them to decide what's appropriate. If it doesn't help deter such behavior ( a slap on the wrist), I suspect the system would suffer for it.
 
Perhaps he's thinking of running for VP one day.
 
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