Posted on 05/10/2003 10:29:40 AM PDT by sarcasm
I wonder if a conservative could use this phrase and not have 27 NYTCNNCBSNBCABC reporters camped on his/her front lawn?
'Republic of Fear' (Howell Raines Runs The New York Times Through Humiliation and Fear)
It is curious. Maybe to keep warm in one's car when staking out a source or potential source? Like the press stake out in front of Starr's house during the investigation of X42.
One of those stories he made up was the one about the government stopping the D.C. sniper from confessing.
The Clueless Times has been working on the honor system for the last 40 years as its ideologues presented politically correct reality as truth. A real investigation of all their people and practices would be a labor fit for a Hercules, an Augean stables.
Coming as it does from a mouthpiece of the Democratic Party, however, it seems:
1) Irrelevant, since a newspaper that prints op-ed pieces as "fact" on its front page and shamelessly endorses specific political doctrines in its "reporting" cannot seriously be considered an objective source of news. Thus, another set of fabrications coming from a well-known source of fabrications isn't at all surprising.
2) Predictable. Indeed, it is impossible to imagine how a young writer surrounded by such pathos for four years would not resort to emulating it. The issue here is not that Jayson Blair wrote fictitious stories, but that he did so without permission. How supremely ironic that a news staff that worships Bill Clinton takes offense at dishonesty!
If this had occurred at a newspaper that had maintained a good reputation for honest reporting, it would be a sensational story. Coming as it does from a handbill for liberal Democrats, it is nothing more than a tempest in a teapot.
I wonder if a conservative could use this phrase and not have 27 NYTCNNCBSNBCABC reporters camped on his/her front lawn?
Horan, Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney (i.e., District Attorney for Fairfax County) for decades now, is the one who said that. Although I think that he is a Democrat, I'm not sure. At any rate, he is quite conservative.
excerpt from Columbia Journalism Review, December 1993
Accepting the premise that a newsroom lacking in proportional representation of nonwhites cannot provide fair and accurate coverage of America's increasingly multicultural society, [NYTimes Publisher] Sulzberger has called diversity "the single most important issue" his newspaper faces. In 1991 he made a speech to the National Association of Black Journalists in which he referred to it as "our cause." The following year he told the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association, "We can no longer offer our readers a predominantly white, straight. male vision of events and say that we, as journalists, are doing our jobs."
Endorsing the first tentative steps toward diversity taken by the Times's executive editor, Max Frankel, after Frankel took over the newsroom in 1986, Sulzberger has urged his executives to redouble efforts to hire and promote minority editors and reporters. In 1991, Gerald Boyd, the first black manager in the Times's Washington bureau, had been made editor of the Metro section, and in 1993 he became the paper's first black assistant managing editor; as Metro editor, Boyd expanded coverage of the outer boroughs, to which the paper had previously given short shrift. Other celebrated diversity hires have been Bob Herbert, who this spring became the first black columnist, and Margo Jefferson, who became the paper's first black critic, leaping from outside the Times over the heads of several talented white male veterans whose seniority would have given them preference before.
The quest for diversity has had unquestionable benefits. It has led to the hiring of many talented members of minority groups who might have been ignored by the paper in a less enlightened day. While not too long ago the Times was a nearly all-white institution focused on all-white precincts of power, it is now getting closer to the "ideal newspaper" made up of "as many smart people from as many different backgrounds as possible," as one Times reporter put it.
Some acknowledge the value of this effort but see a worrisome downside. A recent Esquire magazine piece by Robert Sam Anson described the feelings of white reporters at the Times who complained of certain stories being reserved for minorities, of editors tailoring stories to suit their political views, and of management so desperate to hire and promote minorities that some have been placed in positions where they were in way over their heads.
I'm stunned. Shocked. It took FIVE Times reporters and an additional TWO researchers to pen this bit of classic irony? The Times wouldn't know "truth" if it flew a hijacked 757 into their newsroom and this entire story PROVES it!
What arrogance! These folks think they know the truth??? They can't handle the truth!!!
By golly, you've got a point.
``There has never been a systematic effort to lie and cheat as a reporter at The New York Times comparable to what Jayson Blair seems to have done.''
That statement does kind of beg the question, doesn't it...???
Blair exceeded who? Just how comparable were they...???
Why, for the "cover up", of course! ;-P
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Blair has nothing to worry about professionally. I'm told CNN is looking for a new Baghdad Bureau Chief.
So many of their opeds and vile swipes at our president, rummy or SOS Powell are filled with these unnamed sources who just happen to regurgitate the Slimes's latest lie about GW.
They all remind me of the Yeti that Woodward used for his Nixon lies, the Yeti called Deepthroat!
CNN admits they lied to keep access to the Iraqi government.
The Washington Post admits they lied about fictitious crackheads.
CBS and ABC have former reporters detailing bias (to the point of outright deception) in their newsrooms.
NBC News fakes blowing up trucks and poisoning deli food to invent their own "news".
Isn't it about time there was a Class Action suit against "Big Media" for fraud?
If only the government would go after "Big Media" the way they went after "Big Tobacco". Imagine the spoils they could seize.
BTW, in my novel the villains use "Vince Foster" a few times as a verb.
As in asking each other "was he Vince Fostered?" when a colleague is found dead in his car in a canal with an empty whiskey bottle and a .14 BAL.
Yes, he was "Vince Fostered".
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