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TIME’s Fareed Zakaria Hit With Plagiarism Charge
It hasn’t even been two weeks since Jonah Lehrer resigned from The New Yorker amidst charges of self-plagiarism and fabricating quotes, but already there’s another media scandal brewing.
The conservative blog Newsbusters noticed a striking similarity between Fareed Zakaria’s new TIME magazine piece on gun control and Jill Lepore’s New Yorker article on guns in America from April.
A TIME spokesperson told TPM the magazine “takes any accusation of plagiarism by any of our journalists very seriously, and we will careful examine the facts before saying anything else on the matter.”
Here are the paragraphs in question. From Zakaria’s piece:
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