CNN and CNN International prep two TV specials to mark one-year anniversary of America's 6 January 2021 Capitol riot.

by Thinus Ferreira

CNN and CNN International (DStv 401) are working on at least two TV specials to mark the one-year anniversary of 6 January 2021 when a mob of supporters of the former American president Donald Trump attacked the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.

On Friday morning, 7 January at 02:00 (South African time) CNN and CNN International will broadcast Live from the Capitol: January 6: One Year Later as a 2-hour TV special with Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper as the co-presenters from the Capitol's National Statuary Hall.

Live from the Capitol: January 6: One Year Later will include comments from the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House members like Lisa Blunt Rochester, Jason Crow, Veronica Escobar, Ruben Gallego, Dan Kildee and Susan Wild.

Members of the House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection will also talk, including Bennie Thompson, Liz Cheney and Jamie Raskin.

Officers who were on the scene on the day will also be at the TV special, including US Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, as well as DC Metropolitan Police Officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges.

Meanwhile, Fareed Zakaria is also prepping a 6 January 2021 TV special, The Fight to Save American Democracy, that is set to broadcast on CNN International on Monday 10 January 2022 at 04:00 in the morning (South African time).

CNN International puts Fareed Zakaria back on television after plagiarism scandal.

CNN International (DStv 401) is putting Fareed Zakaria back on television after he was caught plagiarising text from other people in columns and a TIME magazine article without correct attribution.

Fareed Zakaria was suspended last Friday by TIME and CNN International. Fareed Zakaria's weekly TV show Fareed Zakaria GPS was immediately taken off the air and didn't go out this past Sunday and won't this Sunday either, but CNN International will now return Fareed Zakaria GPS to its schedule from next Sunday, 26 August.

Fareed Zakaria is guilty of plagiarism, but CNN International in a press statement now says that "Zakaria has apologized for a journalistic lapse. CNN and Zakaria will work together to strengthen further the procedures for his show and blog. His public affairs programme GPS will return on Sunday 26 August on CNN International."

BREAKING. Fareed Zakaria suspended by CNN International and TIME magazine following accusations of plagiarism.

Fareed Zakaria of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN International (DStv 401) on Sundays at 14:00 (South African time) who also writes for TIME magazine has been suspended by both CNN and TIME after allegations of plagiarism in his latest TIME article which contain text similar to that found in an April article in The New Yorker.

"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 22 April 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," Fareed Zakaria says in a press statement.

TIME has now suspended Fareed Zakaria immediately, saying in a statement: "TIME accepts Fareed Zakaria's apology, but what he did violates our own standards for our columnists, which is that their work must not only be factual bur 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."

CNN in turn said that "CNN has suspended Fareed Zakaria while this matter us under review."