CNN host and columnist Fareed Zakaria, after apologizing Friday for a plagiarism incident, has been suspended for one month by Time Magazine.

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Zakaria’s apology:

“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. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.”

Time Magazine’s statement:

TIME accepts Fareed’s apology, but what he did violates our own standards for our columnists, which is that their work must not only be factual but original; their views must not only be their own but their words as well. As a result, we are suspending Fareed’s column for a month, pending further review.

The otherwise well-regarded journalist was caught copying parts of a New Yorker article on gun control without offering proper credit.

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