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To: bentway who wrote (661193)	7/8/2012 12:58:39 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583406

Yes, I've seen them, and they are the most biased, incompetently done in depth news reports I've seen anyway. Some of it is out of his ignorance I'm sure. But mostly, it is just bias. The same kind of crap that gave us the WHO reports showing how bad US health care is, and the same general principle that Michael Moore used to discern health care in Cuba was better in the US. Just liberal bias going after the Holy Grail -- single payer.

To: bentway who wrote (661193)	7/8/2012 1:17:49 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583406

According to your wikipedia link, Taiwan has medicare for everyone. And it seems they have the same problems we do with our medicare: Even with all their success in their health care system, Taiwan has suffered some misfortunes. The government is not taking in enough money to cover the services it provides, so it is borrowing money from banks. [15] The revenue base is capped so it does not keep pace with the increase in national income. Premiums are regulated by politicians [16] and they are afraid to raise premiums because of voters. The country is slow at adopting technology except for drugs. There is a low doctor-to-population ratio resulting in too many patients depending on too few doctors. Patients visit the doctor more frequently causing doctors to keep visits short to about 2 to 5 minutes per patient. en.wikipedia.org If this is the envy of the world, our medicare system must be the envy of the world too.

To: bentway who wrote (661193)	8/10/2012 8:26:32 PM
From: steve harris	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1583406

I know it disagrees with your deep-seated prejudices and wrong-headed beliefs, but it is good to see Fareed Zakaria in deep doodoo today Chris....

To: bentway who wrote (661193)	8/11/2012 2:38:59 AM
From: joseffy	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583406

Fareed Zakaria suspended by Time and CNN for plagiarism.

To: bentway who wrote (661193)

8/11/2012 2:44:24 AM

From: joseffy

1 Recommendation Respond to of 1583406

Fareed Zakaria's plagiarism more bad news for a CNN

Stealing others' ideas and words as bad as it gets for a public intellectual

Fareed Zakaria suspended by Time and CNN for plagiarism.

It's not the first time he's been accused of stealing another's ideas and words. (August 11, 2012)

By David Zurawik The Baltimore Sun 10:48 p.m. EDT, August 10, 2012
baltimoresun.com

Following the lead of Time magazine, CNN Friday suspended Sunday morning show host and international affairs analyst Fareed Zakaria for plagiarism.

The magazine said its suspension was for a month "pending further review," while CNN put no time limit on its removal of Zakaria from its airwaves.

Plagiarism used to be a deadly journalistic sin from which there often was no redemption. Given the lack of values and ethics is journalism today, however, who knows what will happen to Zakaria.

I do know that in the wake of the journalistic beating CNN took when it mis-reported the Supreme Court's ruling on Obamacare this summer, this isn't the kind of matter the last cable news channel with any kind of commitment to journalism over ideology can treat lightly.

CNN is under siege on several fronts, and having a plagiarist as your star Sunday-morning, foreign affairs analyst doesn't help. It takes not only intellectual but also moral authority to command the Sunday-morning public affairs space that CNN once thought Zakaria could own. I don't see how you can be perceived as holding moral or intellectual authority once you are shown to be a thief of others' ideas and thoughts.

The plagiarism involved a passage in a column Zakaria wrote in the Aug. 20 issue of Time magazine. Similarities were noted to an essay written by Jill Lepore in the New Yorker in April.

Friday afternoon, Zakaria issued a statement saying, "Media reporters have pointed out that paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 23rd issue of the New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault."

CNN said in a statement that it suspended Zakaria for using some of the same "unattributed" Lepore material for a blog post at CNN.com.

“We have reviewed Fareed Zakaria’s TIME column, for which he has apologized," the statement said. "He wrote a shorter blog post on CNN.com on the same issue which included similar unattributed excerpts. That blog post has been removed and CNN has suspended Fareed Zakaria while this matter is under review.”

Fool me once ...

Here are two links worth checking into for context and background. The first at Huffington Post points out that Zakaria is a trustee at Yale University, an institution at which plagiarism can get a student expelled. The author wonders if the trustee will be treated the same as a student would by this institution that proclaims no tolerance for intellectual dishonesty. Read it here under the heading: "Fareed Zakaria's plagiarism: even worse than it looks."

In the academy, when you plagiarize, you are cooked. As a Ph.D from Harvard, Zakaria should know the rules of the academic game, which, I am sad to say, are tougher these days than in journalism where the massive changes in technology, lifestyle and economics seem to have obliterated any serious discussion of or adherence to ethical standards in many newsrooms.

The second piece is from 2009 and features Jeffrey Goldberg, of The Atlantic, alleging that Zakaria stole some of his work as well three years ago. The tone of Goldberg's piece is kind of flip, and maybe that's why the seriousness of his charges against Zakaria were overlooked. But I think what Zakaria did to Goldberg shows the same kind of intellectual dishonesty as the CNN host showed twice this week in Time and at CNN.com. Read that here.

Maybe I am a hopelessly out of date moralist, or maybe it is because I have taught media ethics for the last 20 years to college students, but I don't care how smart someone is supposed to be, if they steal others' ideas and words, they are dead to me as a source of intellectual or moral discourse. And if the media did a better job policing themselves in this regard, the public would have far more trust and confidence in us.

I am sorry if it sounds harsh, but I have no confidence or trust in anything Zakaria has to say.

"Fareed Zakaria GPS,"which aired at 10 a.m. and was repeated at 1 p.m., will be replaced by “Your Money with Ali Velshi” at 10 and “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” at 1 Sunday, according to a spokeswoman for the channel.

To: bentway who wrote (661193)	8/11/2012 2:46:11 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1583406

Fareed Zakaria "I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault."