TIMES ADMITS YOUNG REPORTER ENGAGED IN 'FRAUD'

New York Post ^ | 5/11/03 | Post Wire Services

[kattracks]

May 11, 2003 -- The New York Times made a rare front-page mea culpa today, outlining a pattern of deception, lies and "journalistic fraud" perpetrated by a former reporter assigned to some of the year's biggest stories.

The reporter, Jayson Blair, resigned from the so-called Paper of Record last week after editors discovered that he had stolen details about a missing soldier's mother from a San Antonio newspaper.

[mict42]

"Times", they are a changing?

[GOPJ]

How did this man keep his job? What did he put out that trumped integrity? What staff knew, when did they know it and who benefited from the lies or the liar...

Fill this story out, NYT. Corruption in the news media is just as important as corruption in government.

His former editor on the paper's metro desk, Jonathan Landman, had told Times bosses in April 2002 in an e-mail: "We have to stop Jayson from writing for the Times. Right now."

Blair took a personal leave, but was promoted to the national desk, where his deceptions continued.

[DeaconRed]

"How did this man keep his job?"

Because they were afraid of the Rev Jackson: Plain and simple.

[mict42]

This a good case of Black Jounalism.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Mainsteam media telling lies - I'm shocked I tells ya shocked!

[DainBramage]

Leave him alone. black youth all over lookup to him as evidence of success.

Just more white man holdin the black man down.(/sarcasm)(/sterotypical jive)

[T'wit]

The TIMES itself commits fraud every day by selecting news stories that conform to its political views and burying stories that reveal the corruption of the Left. I don't see what objection the TIMES can have if one of their reporters commits fraud.

[WaterDragon]

You have to wonder why Raines is coming down on this man. Can't just be because the NYTimes is caught out with fabricated stories. That's nothing new. Doesn't the NYTimes still brag about and treasure the something-or-other Prize Will Duranty wrote about the Stalin's USSR -- complete fabrications!

So, I'm wondering what's going on here.

[WaterDragon]

OOps....the prize Duranty GOT FOR WRITING fabricated reports about Stalin's USSR......

[horse_doc]

Walter Duranty's Pulitzer still hangs in a place of honor in the lobby of the NYT.

If they really want to clean house, they'd take it down, and issue an apology to the millions that Uncle Joe buried in the Ukraine.

But that's too hard. It is a lot easier to dump on a black guy, who just did on a small scale what Duranty and Raines did/still does on a grand scale. Rules are for the little people.

[RWG]

Blair, who is black, came to the Times as part of an internship program designed to help the paper attract more minority reporters. Times officials insisted that fact had nothing to do with his subsequent hiring and quick rise to full reporter status, despite editors' concerns about his work.


SOURCE:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/05/10/ny.times.reporter/index.htm

[WaterDragon]

I'm sure you're right, that must be part of it. But it still seems odd. When has the NYTimes ever been concerned about truth or honesty? Honestly? They aren't.

And I think this cannot be the first time when they've discovered one of their reporters has pulled this sh##. So, why such intense investigation and dramatic exposure? I just think there is something going on. The NYTimes is nothing if not focused...what is the focus? This man Blair is a sacrifice to something, because he isn't, as you say, all that important in the larger scheme of things.

[veronica]

Ha ha. If only we could catch Maureen Dowd in a similar situation. It's such fun watching The Times sink like a stone.

[fruitjuicyred]

Blair took a personal leave, but was promoted to the national desk, where his deceptions continued.

Clearly aspiring to run for the RAT nomination one day.

-mombonn, enjoying Mother's Day with her daughter.

Happy Day, all!

[Uncle George]

Yes, this Liberal Rag of a paper should change its name to "THE NEW YORK DAILY FRAUD". Our local paper carries nearly all their Commie Lib slanted, hand selected, bias news. They are real artists at weaving a left wing slant into ANY NEWS EDITORIAL and it sickens me.

[DeaconRed]

"Times officials insisted that fact had nothing to do with his subsequent hiring and quick rise to full reporter status, despite editors' concerns about his work. "

Yeah,
and I am the easter Bunny.

[YOMO]

You also forgot to be Saddened, DEEPLY SADDENED.
Paper of Record? Right, good for reading and wiping in that little house out back.

[Timesink]

Nothing is more important in the journalism industry - particularly print journalism - than "diversity." NOTHING. Most inside-journalism trade publications and web sites have "diversity" news sections as huge as a regular newspaper or website would have "sports", and these sections offer a continuous tracking of efforts to "equalitize" newsrooms across the country in terms of two groups only: minorities and women. To the journalism industry, it is still, and always shall be, 1961.

So, to answer your question:

How did this man keep his job? What did he put out that trumped integrity? What staff knew, when did they know it and who benefited from the lies or the liar...

The New York Times benefitted. It had an under-30 BLACK rising star who was regularly getting his name on the front page. This meant The Times could routinely point out this fact to all the journalism industry "diversity" reporters and editors, as well as as the Jesse Jackson-esque hustlers in the "minority journalism associations" (which operate as some strange mix of corrupt unions and plain old gestapos), and thus covered its collective ass, as well as captured award after award from these same publications and "associations" for improving the race and gender quotas (and let there be NO mistake, these ARE 100% pure quotas) in their newsrooms.

Of course, it takes more than one black/Asian/female reporter to accomplish this. Every big paper has dozens, every small paper has at least a couple. Jayson Blair was but one small player in a big sham. But he was a very prominent player due to his extremely young age and the fact he was working for The Most Important Newspaper in the World. (And you should take that claim with as many grains of salt as you take when you see Hillary referred to as The Smartest Woman in the World.)

This of course does not mean that there aren't plenty of black, hispanic, Asian, and/or female reporters out there who don't turn out great work; there are. There simply aren't enough to ever satisfy the massive quotas certain people in the journalism industry are demanding. So newsroom editors and publishers will cut corners to fill said quotas, and it's just one more reason liberal "mainstream" journalism will continue to wither and die as the Net, Fox News and talk radio continue to take away more and more market share.

[Timesink]

Ha ha. If only we could catch Maureen Dowd in a similar situation. It's such fun watching The Times sink like a stone.

Sadly, as a columnist, MowDown is not held to as high a standard as an actual reporter, so she can stretch the truth as much as she wants (cf. Paul Krugman). She would have to start writing whoppers so over the top that they made the entire NY-DC media elite axis drop their jaws in awe ("Bush in secret plans to nuke Chicago for political gain", for example) before she'd ever lose her job.