Jim Sleeper: Guess Who Obama Was Channeling in Kansas
You really can't get more egg on your face than Barack Obama's neoliberal Beltway apologists have after his big speech in Kansas. That's because a portion of the speech reads as if the president were...
View ArticleMatt McAllester Leaves 'Newsweek' for 'Time'
There’s been another major defection from Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Matt McAllester, the Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who joined Tina Brown’s NewsBeast in October as a senior editor, is...
View ArticleWATCH: Fareed Zakaria's Plea To Focus On Poverty
"I'm in this race because I care about Americans," Romney said. "I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it. ".
View ArticleMJ Rosenberg: Senators Forcing Obama to War With Iran
No one knows if President Obama intends to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, give Israel the go-ahead to do it, continue to rely on sanctions, or turn to comprehensive negotiations to resolve the...
View ArticleEric Alterman: Think Again: Homeless Hotspots? Reality Bites
American novelist Philip Roth complains that the "real world" has grown so berserk that fiction has no hope of keeping up and remaining credible at the same time. I was perhaps not the only person to...
View ArticleVICE Hosts HBO News Mag Show
The VICE magazine and media brand is partnering with HBO on a news magazine show to appear weekly on the premium cable network. Hosted by VICE founder Shane Smith, the show boasts Bill Maher as one of...
View ArticleCNN EXPOSED: Columbia Journalism Review Analyzes Why It's So Bad
CNN's ratings continue to tank, with the primetime numbers recently hitting their lowest level in 20 years.
View ArticleFareed Zakaria Apologizes for 'Close Similarities' Between Column and New...
Mr. Zakaria's recent column on gun control had passages that closely tracked those in a New Yorker piece by the historian Jill Lepore. Time said it "will carefully examine the facts before saying...
View ArticleMedia Decoder Blog: Fareed Zakaria Apologizes for 'Close Similarities'...
Mr. Zakaria's recent column on gun control had passages that closely tracked those in a New Yorker piece by the historian Jill Lepore. Time said it "will carefully examine the facts before saying...
View ArticleTime columnist Fareed Zakaria suspended for lifting from New Yorker story
NewsBusters | National Review | The Atlantic Wire Time magazine has suspended Fareed Zakaria’s column for a month after learning that portions of his Aug. 20 Time magazine column about gun control bore...
View Article'Time' Suspends Zakaria Column
Fareed Zakaria apologized for plagiarizing The New Yorker’s Jill Lepore, but Time suspended the editor at large's column for a month anyway.
View ArticleNewsroom responses to Zakaria plagiarism reveal lack of consistency,...
The Fareed Zakaria plagiarism scandal has an interesting unintended consequence: it highlights how media outlets respond differently to plagiarism and fabrication cases.
View ArticleFareed Zakaria: ‘People are piling on with every grudge or vendetta’
The Washington Post | The Daily Beast | The Panic Virus | The Washington Post | American Thinker | The Atlantic | The Huffington Post | The Boston Globe Fareed Zakaria’s Washington Post column has been...
View ArticleFareed Zakaria says many journalists don’t attribute quotations
The Atlantic After Fareed Zakaria apologized last week for plagiarizing a couple of passages from a New Yorker article, Jeffrey Goldberg was reminded of an incident in 2009 in which Zakaria had used...
View ArticleCut, paste, plagiarize
When Fareed Zakaria’s plagiarism was discovered, it was the rare moment when the Web’s standards aligned with the mainstream media’s, and he was out. The problem is that those standards are far more...
View ArticleCrime and punishment
As Fareed Zakaria’s trial-by-blogosphere for alleged plagiarism continues, Jonah Lehrer, whom the same jury convicted of fabricating quotes last month, has received a measure of clemency from an old...
View ArticleAfter Review, Time Says Fareed Zakaria's Plagiarism Was 'Isolated Incident'
The magazine says it is "entirely satisfied that the language in question in his recent column was an unintentional error. " His column will return to the magazine on Sept. 7. CNN likewise announced...
View ArticleMedia Decoder Blog: After Review, Time Says Fareed Zakaria's Plagiarism Was...
The magazine says it is "entirely satisfied that the language in question in his recent column was an unintentional error. " His column will return to the magazine on Sept. 7. CNN likewise announced...
View ArticleTime: Fareed Zakaria’s plagiarism was unintentional, isolated incident
Time magazine has finished reviewing Fareed Zakaria’s columns after he lifted a few lines from a New Yorker story. The magazine is “entirely satisfied that the language in question in his recent column...
View ArticleFareed Zakaria's suspension lifted by CNN and Time
Journalist had been punished for lifting content from a New Yorker article about gun control without attribution.
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