No university wants a first paragraph like this in its newspaper.
Yale Trustee Fareed Zakaria ’86 was suspended by Time Magazine and CNN today after plagiarizing parts of his Aug. 20 Time column on gun control.
He’s a Yale graduate. A Yale trustee. An important voice on behalf of the very controversial Yale Singapore campus. He’s out there. And although he’s one of the most privileged people on earth, he wouldn’t break enough of a sweat to do his own writing. The image that comes to mind is Marie Antoinette.
August 14th, 2012 at 9:20AM
You may be missing the bigger point here, UD. The plagiarism scandal has become a rite of passage for the true academic and media elites. If you can do it and get away with it (either scot-free [e.g., Charles Ogletree, Laurence Tribe] or some minor consequences [e.g., Doris Kearns Goodwin]), you know that you have hit the big leagues.