CNN host Fareed Zakaria faces accusations of plagiarism again
Fareed Zakaria's columns criticised by anonymous internet watchdog
Columns by CNN host Fareed Zakaria, who was disciplined after a plagiarism controversy two years ago, are under scrutiny after new accusations from an anonymous internet watchdog.
Questions were raised by the site Our Bad Media, which posted 12 examples from Zakaria columns that it said echoed facts or passages from other sources without proper attribution.
They appeared in Time magazine and The Washington Post and on CNN.com Time said it "takes these charges very seriously" and was "reviewing them carefully". Zakaria, widely known as a foreign affairs analyst, no longer works for Time.
Zakaria dismissed the claims, saying the bloggers' examples focus largely on statistics "that also appeared somewhere else".
"These are all facts, not someone else's writing or opinions or expressions," the commentator said in an emailed statement.
The Washington Post's editorial page editor, Fred Hiatt, said the column alleged by Our Bad Media to contain plagiarism or failure to use attribution did not constitute any journalistic offence.