Re: [wanabidii] Fareed Zakaria suspended by TIME, CNN for plagiarism

Telesphor,

Masturbation does not embarrass because it is ought to be private! Plagiarism is thought privately but meant for public consumption unfortunately becoming an embarrassment!

Your lecturer had a punctuation problem and you should not quote him/her again!


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-----Original Message-----
From: Telesphor Magobe <tmagobe@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:48:05
To: <wanabidii@googlegroups.com>
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Subject: Re: [wanabidii] Fareed Zakaria suspended by TIME, CNN for plagiarism

Plagiarism is so embarrassing that my philosophy lecturer used to call
it "intellectual masturbation".

On 8/13/12, Simon Mkina <smkina@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Manabidii,
>
> Fareed is among my few icons I do respect, like and trust. I met him once
> and we exchange views on Africa Politics and the so called kings of the
> rich but very poor continent, he is smart and I read everythig he writes -
> which comes on my side anyway. I am sure he didn't do that purposely, he
> erred humanly as he knows the business and the evil side of plagiarism
>
> Simon
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:18 AM, RICHARD MGAMBA
> <rmgamba2000@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Fareed is among the best guys I have ever known in this business. He
>> reads
>> a lot, but he might have erred humanly. I don't think at his level,
>> Fareed
>> doesn't understand the impacts of plagiarism.
>>
>> Sometime you are caught up in a situation where you so overwhelmed or
>> have a strong confidence to the extent of overlooking some basic issues.
>>
>> But, again, there are also more poetics within these media than what we
>> know. Remember how Jeff Koinange was booted out for the allegations that
>> were not even proved.
>> --- On *Sun, 8/12/12, Tony PT <tony_uk45@yahoo.co.uk>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Tony PT <tony_uk45@yahoo.co.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [wanabidii] Fareed Zakaria suspended by TIME, CNN for
>> plagiarism
>> To: wanabidii@googlegroups.com
>> Date: Sunday, August 12, 2012, 1:54 AM
>>
>>
>> Mobhare,
>>
>> Cases of plagiarism in our schools of higher learning are rampant but go
>> unchecked because many of the current teachers, lecturers are products of
>> the same evil! They are ready to spend money to buy anything else but not
>> an anti-plagiarism check software!
>>
>> It is rumored that nearly 70-85 pct of all term papers, final UE's and
>> theses are direct copy of old submitted papers, google searches and
>> forums
>> like Wikipedia. On the other side, where would a lecturer get time and
>> patience to mark 500-1000 papers of 5-15 pages each submitted to them
>> after
>> exams and produce results within a month or two?
>>
>> Most term-papers, UE are submitted by hard copies instead of soft copies,
>> it is impossible to electronically mark such volume of hard-copies
>> (papers)
>> and even submitting them for plagiarism check.
>> All anti-plagiarism check software I know are hosted and online, and
>> submission of a student work exposes it to a large worldwide pool of
>> databases for originality analysis. Also the process allows a submitted
>> paper to be part of future reference and protected source for other
>> users.
>>
>> The ministry of education, TCU, NACTE and institutional administrators
>> are
>> not at all serious with the problem; as a result, students who move
>> abroad
>> for further education encounter huge problems of adjustment to these
>> systems and in some cases, suffer in their academic progress before
>> understanding that plagiarism is an academic offense!
>>
>> TCU, NACTE should make it mandatory for all student papers from exams
>> (all
>> types) to submit their work thru anti-plagiarism systems administered by
>> their institutions. The cost of APS is by far lower than the cost of
>> destroying education standards for our country. It could cost around
>> USD.10,000 per university to install a networked system, which is cheaper
>> by any standards compared to a Toyota pick-up (truck). Short of this we
>> are
>> destroying our future wanataaluma for many years to come!
>> Sent from my BlackBerry® Porsche-9981 smartphone Thru Tigo Network,
>> Tanzania.
>> ------------------------------
>> *From: * Mobhare Matinyi <matinyi@hotmail.com>
>> *Sender: * wanabidii@googlegroups.com
>> *Date: *Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:18:57 +0000
>> *To: *Wanabidii googlegroups<wanabidii@googlegroups.com>
>> *ReplyTo: * wanabidii@googlegroups.com
>> *Subject: *RE: [wanabidii] Fareed Zakaria suspended by TIME, CNN for
>> plagiarism
>>
>> Obama was caught in 2008 but luckily the man he offended, the governor of
>> Massachussets, another blackman and a former Coca Cola executive, didn't
>> mind as he was also one of the very important people in Obama's campaign;
>> eventually Obama claimed that he had his permission.
>>
>> But also, honestly, I never liked Zacharia, for some good reasons.
>>
>> In regards to our students in Tanzania, things are so serious. In 2010 I
>> spotted a SUA student inside an Internet cafe in Morogoro copying
>> everything from one paper straight to his own paper without attributing
>> anything. He didn't even care that I watching it; he was cutting some
>> paragraphs, sentences, etc. Then another student at OUT told me that
>> their
>> home works are basically copy and paste from the Internet.
>>
>> Matinyi.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> From: kerezesia_mukalugaisa@hotmail.com
>> To: wanabidii@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: RE: [wanabidii] Fareed Zakaria suspended by TIME, CNN for
>> plagiarism
>> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:40:08 +0000
>>
>> Poor Fareed Zakaria, what a pity, all he needed to have done *would have
>> been to state clearly that he was now about to quote Jill Lepore in an
>> essay she wrote on the same subject that appeared in the April 23 issue
>> of
>> The New Yorker. To * have " forgotten" to indicate that he was quoting
>> Jill Lepore verbatim or even in paraphrase was totally unethical.... The
>> lesson ought to be learnt by all of us who write in one way or the other,
>> not just Fareed Zakaria.... Our students in schools and universities as
>> well as all our journalists ought to take this as a lesson to be learnt
>> by
>> all... the embarrassment is devastating once caught like Fareed Zakaria
>> was !
>> Mwl. Lwaitama
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:43:18 +0300
>> Subject: [wanabidii] Fareed Zakaria suspended by TIME, CNN for plagiarism
>> From: mwakalukwa@gmail.com
>> To: WANABIDII@googlegroups.com
>>
>> *
>>
>> NEW YORK: The influential TIME magazine and CNN have suspended Fareed
>> Zakaria, the writer and television host, on Friday after he apologised
>> for
>> plagiarising a New Yorker article in his column on gun control in the
>> August 20 issue of TIME, the New York Times reported.
>> *
>>
>>
>>
>> Some passages in Zakaria's column, "The Case for Gun Control," closely
>> tracked those in a longer article on guns in America by the historian
>> Jill
>> Lepore, which appeared in the April 23 issue of The New Yorker.
>>
>>
>>
>> According to Wikipedia, Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist and
>> author. From 2000 to 2010, he was a columnist for Newsweek and editor of
>> Newsweek International. In 2010 he became editor-at-large of TIME. The
>> similarities in the texts were spotted by the conservative Web site
>> NewsBusters.
>>
>>
>>
>> Zakaria issued a statement Friday afternoon saying: "Media reporters have
>> pointed out that paragraphs in my TIME column this week bear close
>> similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 23 issue
>> of
>> The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a
>> serious
>> lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologise unreservedly to her,
>> to my editors at TIME, and to my readers".
>>
>>
>>
>> His admission is the second instance in less than two weeks of a
>> prominent
>> writer owning up to an ethical lapse. Last week, the science writer Jonah
>> Lehrer admitted that he fabricated quotes from Bob Dylan for his
>> best-selling book "Imagine: How Creativity Works". Lehrer was forced to
>> resign as a staff writer for The New Yorker, and his publisher, Houghton
>> Mifflin Harcourt, said it would recall print copies of the book.
>>
>>
>>
>> TIME said it was suspending Zakaria's column for a month, pending review.
>> "TIME accepts Fareed'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,"
>> said Ali Zelenko, a spokeswoman for the magazine. CNN, like TIME
>> magazine,
>> is owned by Time Warner.
>>
>>
>>
>> In a statement, CNN said: "We have reviewed Fareed Zakaria's TIME column,
>> for which he has apologised. He wrote a shorter blog post on CNN.com on
>> the
>> same issue which included similar un-attributed excerpts. That blog post
>> has been removed and CNN has suspended Fareed Zakaria while this matter
>> is
>> under review". Earlier this year, Zakaria was criticised for giving a
>> commencement speech at Harvard that was very similar to the one he had
>> earlier given at Duke.
>>
>>
>>
>> Zakaria, 48, balances a demanding schedule, doing work for multiple media
>> properties. He is a CNN host, an editor at large at TIME, a Washington
>> Post
>> columnist and an author. He was born in India and graduated from Harvard
>> and Yale.
>>
>>
>>
>> Fred Hiatt, the Washington Post's editorial page editor, said he also
>> would start examining Zakaria's work: "Fareed Zakaria is a valued
>> contributor. We've never had any reason to doubt the integrity of his
>> work
>> for us. Given his acknowledgment today, we intend to review his work with
>> him". The NYT quoted the following passages which provide an example of
>> the
>> repetition of Ms Lepore's work in Zakaria's column:
>>
>>
>>
>> Mr Zakaria:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 US from the earliest years of the
>> Republic. Laws that banned the carrying of concealed weapons were passed
>> in
>> Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813. Other states soon followed: Indiana in
>> 1820, Tennessee and Virginia in 1838, Alabama in 1839 and Ohio in 1859.
>> Similar laws were passed in Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. As the governor
>> of
>> Texas (Texas!) explained in 1893, the "mission of the concealed deadly
>> weapon is murder. To check it is the duty of every self-respecting,
>> law-abiding man".
>>
>>
>>
>> Ms Lepore:
>>
>>
>>
>> As Adam Winkler, a constitutional-law scholar at UCLA, 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. Laws banning the carrying of concealed weapons were passed in
>> Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813, and other states soon followed: Indiana
>> (1820), Tennessee and Virginia (1838), Alabama (1839), and Ohio (1859).
>> Similar laws were passed in Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma. As the governor
>> of Texas explained in 1893, the "mission of the concealed deadly weapon
>> is
>> murder. To check it is the duty of every self-respecting, law-abiding
>> man".
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-126143-Fareed-Zakaria-suspended-by-TIME-CNN-for-plagiarism
>>
>>
>> A statement from
>> <http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/10/a-statement-from-fareed/><http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/10/a-statement-from-fareed/>Zakaria
>>
>> Media reporters have pointed out that paragraphs in my Time column on gun
>> control, which was also a topic of conversation on this blog, bear close
>> similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 23rd issue
>> of The New Yorker. They are right. 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 CNN, and to my readers and viewers
>> everywhere.
>>
>> http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/10/a-statement-from-fareed/
>>
>>
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