Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Fareed Zakaria resigns from board at Yale

Fareed Zakaria resigns from board at Yale

By Alexander C. Kaufman | Reuters – Tue, Aug 21, 2012
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Fareed Zakaria, the Time magazine editor-at-large and CNN host who recently admitted to plagiarism, resigned from his position on Yale University's board to reevaluate his professional life, a Yale spokesman told TheWrap.
In a letter to Yale President Richard Levin, Zakaria - a Yale alumnus - said he planned to focus on his work in the wake of a plagiarism inquiry that raised questions about the veracity of the prominent reporter's large oeuvre of journalism.
"I am reexamining my professional life and I have recognized that, in order to focus on the core of my work, I will have to shed some of my other responsibilities," Zakaria wrote in the letter, obtained by TheWrap. "My service at Yale is the single largest commitment of time, energy and attention outside of my writing and television work."
Time and CNN briefly suspended Zakaria this month for lifting paragraphs from a New Yorker essay about gun control and re-purposing them, almost verbatim, in his Time column.
Yale also launched a review of Zakaria's position on the board last week, but that process was curtailed after the journalist's resignation.
"My colleagues and I are deeply grateful for Fareed Zakaria's generous contribution of time and service to the Yale Corporation these past six years," Levin said in a statement to TheWrap. "His keen intelligence and broad knowledge of world affairs have enlightened our discussions, and his appearances on campus have benefited our students and faculty. We will miss him as a colleague, a contributor and a friend."
But last week, both news outlets said they found no other instances of plagiarism, termed the matter an "isolated incident" and reinstated Zakaria.
He is expected to return to CNN on Sunday, August 26.

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I was very sorry to read this as I find Fareed Zacharia generally the most intelligent and astute political analyst regarding international affairs on Television in the U.S. So, I was sorry to hear about this plagarism scandal. I thought he looked sort of tired lately. I'll be glad to see him on his CNN Sunday show weekly again. I have my Tivo automatically recording it as it airs.
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