Posted on 04/09/2005 8:42:41 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The New York Times is not always the most collegial place to work, but this story sets a new standard -- if the allegations are true, which remains in dispute.
The Times has fired Susan Sachs, its former Baghdad bureau chief. According to Times sources who insisted on anonymity because personnel matters are involved, the paper's management accused Sachs of writing to the wives of two other Times foreign correspondents, to say that their husbands were having affairs.
Sachs denied to management that she had written the letters, but she was accused of not telling the truth based on electronic information involving at least one follow-up e-mail she is said to have written, the sources said.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
WOW! Life imitates Soaps!
The New York Times: Somebody set us up the scandal.
The New York Slimes.....aptly named..
The slimy bastards can't hide the fact they're losers....
Semper Fi
From the article
"But Sachs ran into difficulties with other Times staffers in Iraq soon after the paper sent her to run the Baghdad bureau in October 2003. The Wall Street Journal reported that she had clashed with one correspondent who was carrying a gun for his personal safety. A "person close to" Sachs "says she objects to what she perceives as the Times becoming 'too armed,' " the Journal reported."
If this woman was objecting to reporters in Iraq packing heat, she should have been ousted for that. If the gossipy allegations, or I should say allegations of gossip against her are true, well all I can say it that, for once, I sympathize with the Times.
"Somebody set us up the scandal."
ROFLMAO, now THAT is the last word! perfect!
Better yet, she should have been sent into the Kidnappers-R-Us sector without an escort and without a gun, as her "deeply-held" principles dictate, to get the reactions of the average-man-on-the-street. She's a reporter, right? :-P
If she was ratting out the infidelities of her colleagues to their spouses, I can kinda' understand her objections to them packing heat.
good point.
"She's a reporter, right?"
That's doubtful, but she seems to have all the makings of a world class (going to try and spell this french word now) beaurocrat.
> ... she seems to have all the makings of a world class
> (going to try and spell this french word now) beaurocrat.
Bureaucrat.
It's English now as well.
All your dictionary are belong to us.
I'm sure she'll find a job with the DNC, after spilling
whatever beans she has with a competing news publisher.
Karl Rove strikes again....
snip
Filkins' wife, novelist Ana Menendez, and Burns' wife, Jane Scott-Long, received the mystery missives in the past few months, purporting to rat out their husbands' alleged infidelities.
The Times conducted an investigation and linked postmarks on the envelopes to Sachs' purported whereabouts on the dates the letters were apparently sent - and also claimed to have linked an E-mail to Sachs.
I'm told that the evidence is circumstantial.
But there's certainly no love lost between Sachs and her former colleagues in Baghdad. Back in January, The New York Observer reported that relations between Sachs and Burns and Filkins had become so toxic that Times Executive Editor Bill Keller dispatched then-foreign editor Roger Cohen to broker peace. During a meeting at the bureau to quell the antagonism, Sachs demanded the session be tape-recorded.
Soon after the failed effort, Sachs - who loudly complained when Filkins starting carrying a gun - was recalled to New York.
The former "paper of record" is swirling down the toilet at an ever-quickening pace.
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Commie nepotism.
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