[garbanzo]

What's of broader concern to me is that we'd had recently a number of cases in variety of different fields of young "superstars" who turn out to be frauds and have seriously embarrassed venerable institutions. The pattern with the Blair case is familar - the long mounting suspicion, the weak reprimands, the increasingly implausible denials by the accused, the willing suspensions of disbelief on behalf of the superiors, and the final fall.

I'm wondering if we have generation of youth entering the workplace who are more concerned with being famous than being right.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I'm wondering if we have generation of youth entering the workplace who are more concerned with being famous than being right.

That's my take on things . . .

[Jesse]

"I'm wondering if we have a generation of youth entering the workplace who are more concerned with being famous feeling good about themselves than being right."

Inevitable outcome of outcome-based education. But it gets worse.

Remember, the next surgeon who operates on you may be a similar product of outcome-based education. The next pilot of your jet...the OBE generation is coming of age.

Thanks once again to the NEA and the dumbing down of the public education system to produce automatons who believe the liberal line. Nice to see the Times, a big proponent of such hogwash policies, get bit in the ass over this one, and just hilarious to listen to that pompous hypocrite Raines in full damage control spin mode.

[SFConservative]

I'm wondering if we have generation of youth entering the workplace who are more concerned with being famous than being right.

There is a growing notion that truth and actual facts are nowhere near as important as winning or getting ahead. Democrats in Congress practice this daily; they do it while looking straight into cameras and while knowing that their words will be captured in the Congressional Record. They don't care, because nobody calls them on it. The media no longer see themselves as fact-checkers; they just report the game. The clinton era steepened the slippery slope: OK, so the president lied under oath, but it was about "unimportant" things so it's fine.