Zakaria: Obama in the Middle
Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria is giving Obama high marks on his first 100 days in office in the magazine's May 4 issue. What's interesting, though, is when Zakaria explains why. He writesthat while the...
View ArticleCNN's Full Scope of Journalistic 'Genius'
The Daily Howler's Bob Somerby has a look (4/27/09) at how Newsweek bigshot Fareed Zakaria "pandered and fawned in dragging out yesterday's panel" on his CNN show Zakaria: As I was thinking about the...
View ArticleSomeone Has to Defend Goldman Sachs
And that someone is Fareed Zakaria, in columns published in the Washington Post ("Cool the Goldman Rage") and in the Post-owned Newsweek. Zakaria is unimpressed by the SEC's fraud case against Goldman...
View ArticleWant to Restore the American Dream? Ask the CEOs!
TVNewser posts word of a CNN special this weekend hosted by Fareed Zakaria: Fareed Zakaria will debut his first primetime special this weekend, solidifying his new role at CNN. The special, Restoring...
View ArticleFareed Zakaria's Contra Solution in Libya
CNN/Time pundit Fareed Zakaria is considered one of the smartest guys in elite policy/media circles.Speaking with CNN host Anderson Cooper on Friday(3/4/11), he advocated CIA intervention in Libya....
View ArticleThe New Yorker's Sense of Humor
The recent New Yorker piece by Ryan Lizza about the development of Barack Obama's foreign policy includes this memorable line: Obama had always read widely, and now he was determined to get a deeper...
View ArticleZakaria: All U.S. Presidents Support Democracy (Except When They Don't)
In the Washington Post (7/7/11), Fareed Zakaria tries to defend Barack Obama against the criticism that he needs a more consistent foreign policy. He writes: All American presidents have supported and...
View ArticleZakaria, Libya and Iraq: Don't Remember What I Wrote
Fareed Zakaria cheers the Libya War in Time magazine this week for not following the Iraq model: It has been prosecuted with the memory of the Iraq war firmly in mind. Only this time the approach has...
View ArticleZakaria and Democracy 'Tension'
In the new issue of Time (12/12/11), Fareed Zakaria writes in the first sentence of his column: It is difficult to find a country on the planet that is more anti-American than Pakistan. In a Pew survey...
View ArticleArabs and Democracy: A Question for Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria wrote in Time magazine (4/16/12) that "the Arab Spring is looking less appealing by the week." The problem is a "messier reality," and he zeroes in on Egypt: And now, as Egypt's...
View ArticleMillionaire Pundit: Public Sector Pensions Are the Real Threat
CNN host and Time columnist Fareed Zakaria is no doubt a wealthy guy. He reportedly gets paid $75,000 for one hour speeches. Who has that kind of money? As CJR recently noted: Over the years, he has...
View ArticleJustifying Certain Acts of Violence
Today's New York Times editorial (11/15/12) begins: No country should have to endure the rocket attacks that Israel has endured from militants in Gaza. The Times has questions about the wisdom of a...
View ArticleWho Started Gaza Conflict? Well, the U.S. Says…
Who started the latest round of violence in the Middle East? This pretty remarkable exchange between the host and a reporter on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight show (11/15/12) tells us that no one can...
View ArticleZakaria on Arab Spring: With Democracy, Less Is More
Fareed Zakaria in his latest Washington Post column argues that pro-democracy movements would be better off with less democracy. To Zakaria, Egypt tried too much democracy too soon. "In Jordan, by...
View ArticleWho Gets to Remember Margaret Thatcher?
Who gets to the top of the journalistic establishment probably has a lot to do with what they think of Margaret Thatcher's hard-right policies.
View ArticleOccupy and Inequality: Zakaria Listens to CEOs
CNN host Fareed Zakaria dedicated a portion of his October 13 CNN show to a discussion of income inequality and the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. The guests? Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein...
View ArticleFAIR TV: Hearing Malala's Message, Zakaria's CEO Panel, Networks Do...
US media ignore one part of Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai's message. CNN's Fareed Zakaria talks about inequality and Occupy Wall Street with....three CEOs? And corporations view the news networks...
View ArticleNelson Mandela and Nonviolent Resistance
Fareed Zakaria said of Nelson Mandela, "He was greatly inspired by Gandhi, by the nonviolent struggle." If you're familiar with Mandela's life story, you know this is misleading.
View ArticleZakaria's Fantastic Economic Advice
CNN's Fareed Zakaria-- with an assist from the Wall Street Journal--divided Latin American economies into winners and losers. But does it all add up?
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Fareed Zakaria Wants a Better Public
When he’s not busy dealing with well-documented evidence of chronic plagiarism (Our Bad Media, 9/24/14, 9/16/14, 11/10/14), Fareed Zakaria hosts a talk show on CNN. And this weekend (11/9/14), Zakaria...
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