The Wall Street Journal reports that both Time magazine and CNN have suspended columnist Fareed Zakaria following the revelation of similarities between his recent writing for both news organizations on gun control and another reporter's writing in the New Yorker.
Newsbusters, a conservative media watchdog, flagged on Friday morning close parallels between a paragraph in an article in Mr. Zakaria's most recent column, about gun control, and an April 23 essay in the New Yorker by Jill Lepore.
Mr. Zakaria issued a statement on Friday conceding "I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers."
A spokeswoman for Time magazine subsequently said it accepts Mr. Zakaria's apology "but what he did violates our own standards for our columnists, which is that their work must not only be factual but original; their views must not only be their own but their words as well."
"As a result, we are suspending Fareed's column for a month, pending further review," said Ali Zelenko, a senior vice president for Communications at Time.
Mr. Zakaria, who also hosts a show on global affairs on CNN, is one of the country's most prominent public intellectuals, having served for a decade as editor of Newsweek International before joining Time magazine as editor-at-large in 2010. During the 2008 campaign, then-Senator Barack Obama was photographed carrying a copy of Zakaria's book, "The Post-American World."
Following Time's decision to suspend Mr. Zakaria, CNN made a similar move.
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