Saturday, August 11, 2012

Zakaria busted for plagiarism

This is orientation week for many MBA programs, including NC State.  Each year we spend time on the touchy subject of plagiarism.  Ironically, today's news cycle provides a great example from media pundit Fareed Zakaria.  Here is Zakaria in Time magazine (link courtesy of the Atlantic Wire; Time has removed the article):
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. 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."
Compare to Jill Lepore in the New Yorker in April:
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. 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.
This is a highly egregious case; not an exact quote, but clearly the same ideas expressed in almost the same words.  Zakaria, to his credit, has accepted full responsibility.  He has been suspended by CNN and Time

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