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**sunnykerr** · 08-11-2012, 09:53 AM

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Time editor and CNN host suspended for copying another writer's work

Time editor-at-large and CNN host Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by both the magazine and the network for lifting several paragraphs by another writer for his use in a recent Time column.

Zakaria apologized Friday, declaring in a statement he made "a terrible mistake," adding, "It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault."

In a separate statement, Time spokesman Ali Zelenko said the magazine accepts Zakaria's apology, but would suspend his column for one month, "pending further review."

"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," Zelenko said.

Shortly afterward, CNN said it had removed from the network's website a blog post that "included similar unattributed excerpts," and taken Zakaria off the air indefinitely.

"CNN has suspended Fareed Zakaria while this matter is under review," said CNN spokeswoman Jennifer Dargan. She said Zakaria's Sunday foreign-affairs program, "GPS," will have its time slots filled in the interim by "Your Money with Ali Veshi" and "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer."

Earlier Friday, media reporters had called attention to similarities between passages in Zakaria's column about gun control that appeared in Time's Aug. 20 issue, and paragraphs from an article on the same subject by Harvard University history professor Jill Lepore published in April in The New Yorker magazine.

In Zakaria's column, titled "The Case for Gun Control," he began one paragraph with the sentences: "Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA, documents the actual history in 'Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America.' Guns were regulated in the U.S. from the earliest years of the Republic."

A corresponding passage in Lepore's New Yorker essay, titled "Battleground America," begins: "As Adam Winkler, a constitutional-law scholar at U.C.L.A., demonstrates in a remarkably nuanced new book, 'Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America,' firearms have been regulated in the United States from the start."

In Zakaria's statement, he apologized "unreservedly" to Lepore, as well as to his editors and readers.

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Oh, this saddens me.

I have such a lot of respect for Mr Zakaria and I just don't understand how he could do something like this.

Avatar · 08-11-2012, 11:34 AM

Oh, that is sad... I've always liked Zakaria too.

**sunnykerr** · 08-12-2012, 03:44 PM

I'm really flabbergasted by this news.

It's not something I would have expected from someone of his level of experience.

Avatar · 08-12-2012, 11:10 PM

I suppose even the best gets lazy sometimes, lol.

Barstool Prophet · 08-13-2012, 01:33 AM

Tftnt!

**sunnykerr** · 08-13-2012, 06:30 PM

I suppose it does happen, but it's SO disappointing.

Avatar · 08-14-2012, 10:24 AM

No denying that, lol.

**sunnykerr** · 08-14-2012, 07:32 PM

Okay, since we seem to have covered the subject as far as we can...

How about a change of topic?

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Pussy Riot allies to continue protests against Putin

Members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot plan to continue their anti-Putin protests despite the trial of three colleagues on hooliganism charges.

Seven of the balaclava-clad women talked to BBC News about their protest campaign, using only their nicknames.

A band member called Mother said "of course" when asked if Pussy Riot would carry on protesting as before.

"We'll try to follow our principles, of freedom of speech... we will do it to support our sisters in prison."

Some of the interviewees took part in the protest on 21 February which led to three being arrested and put on trial.

The verdict is expected on Friday. Russian prosecutors have asked for three years in prison for the women.

Pussy Riot played a song attacking Russian President Vladimir Putin at the altar of Moscow's Christ the Saviour cathedral.

The band sided with protesters who staged huge marches against Mr Putin and his United Russia party after December parliamentary elections marred by many alleged abuses.

In the interview, another band member, Terminator, said: "Nobody can mute us, nobody can forbid us to do what we want... We want Russia to be a better place… We won't stop, we would do it again".

Terminator continued: "I hope somebody in the government realises now they're doing something very awful, very bad and have to stop it".

She said the church protest was "not an act of hooliganism, definitely not an anti-religious act" but a "political performance" against President Putin.

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I think Madonna may have expressed some support for them during her concert tour in the Middle East, but otherwise I don't think I've heard a whole lot of supposrt for them.

Which I get, because it's in Russia and no one really talks about their case anyway... but it seems to me that, yes, they did court trouble, but this is also blatant censorship.

To my mind anyway.

Barstool Prophet · 08-16-2012, 02:05 PM

I heard a bit about this. They had a song called all cops are scum

Even Paul McCartney is getting behind them.

**JustMe2000** · 08-16-2012, 04:47 PM

I'd love to see a list of the names they tossed aside before settling on Pussy Riot.

Barstool Prophet · 08-16-2012, 05:54 PM

**sunnykerr** · 08-16-2012, 08:33 PM

Yeah, I have a sneaky suspicion that a large part of their act is provocation.

Which, you know, in any actual democracy is not illegal.

Barstool Prophet · 08-16-2012, 09:14 PM

It is attention getting

**sunnykerr** · 08-19-2012, 05:56 PM

Why yes, yes it is.

Meanwhile:

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Madonna sued in Russia for supporting gay rights

Some Russian activists have sued Madonna for millions of dollars, claiming they were offended by her support for gay rights during a recent concert in St. Petersburg.

Anti-gay sentiment is strong in Russia. In St. Petersburg, a law passed in February makes it illegal to promote homosexuality to minors, and the author of that law has pointed to the presence of children as young as 12 at Madonna’s concert on Aug. 9.

Russian news agencies quote Alexander Pochuyev, a lawyer representing the nine activists, as saying the suit was filed Friday against Madonna, the organizer of her concert, and the hall where it was held, asking for damages totaling 333 million rubles, or nearly $10.5 million.

Responding to criticism that the plaintiffs were stuck in the Middle Ages, the lawyer said they were using civilized, modern methods to defend their rights. “No one is burning anyone at the stake or carrying out an Inquisition,” Pochuyev was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying. “Modern civilization requires tolerance and respect for different values.”

The complaint includes a video taken at the concert showing Madonna stomping on an Orthodox cross and asking fans to raise their hands to show the pink armbands in support of gays and lesbians that were distributed among the audience, the new agency reported.

Madonna also has angered conservative Russians with her support for Pussy Riot. Three members of the punk band were sentenced Friday to two years in prison for a protest inside Moscow’s main cathedral against Vladimir Putin and his cozy relationship with the Russian Orthodox Church.

Madonna spoke out in support of the group during her concert in St. Petersburg and two days earlier in Moscow. After the verdict was issued, Madonna called on “all those who love freedom to condemn this unjust punishment.”

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So, I guess they'd never heard of Madonna before they went to her show, huh?


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