A Journalist's Hard Fall (Newsweek: Jayson Blair in "Hospital Setting Dealing w/ Personal Problems"

Newsweek ^ | May 19, 2003 | Seth Mnookin

[ShorelineMike]

There's a problem with the HTML code just before the "Indeed, more than one ..." string; the color coding is <font color="red&quot;"> instead of <font color="red;">, as it (correctly) is in the first highlighted area.

[McGavin999]

The failure of the management and editors of the paper is as great a crime as the one done by the reporter. He should have been told that his record of mistakes was unacceptable. What were the editors doing that they didn't catch these errors?

The Old Grey Lady has become senile under the leadership of Raines.

[WhiteKnuckles]

Glad you posted this. I was just searching for a list of the fabrications that this guy made.

Can anyone help me out with a link or sumthin? Thanks.

[DainBramage]

I forgot the (/sarcasm)

[MediaMole]

What is Mr. Raines sexual orientation??

He's a Dowd-o-sexual. (Yes, really. It's a disgusting thought. I have to go and wash my brain now.)

[BushCountry]

Needs six hex numbers you have four, 0ed0 -- the omitted two do not count.

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[Ed_in_NJ]

did not respond to a message left there or on his cell phone

Only a guy like this could get a phone in his cell.

[Timesink]

Additional question. I have always understood that NYT has a preponderence of homosexual reporters and staff. Yes, this reporter may be black, but I wonder whetther his real affirmative action is in his sexual preference????

I have heard stories in the past about a "gay mafia" largely controlling the Times' newsroom management, but I have no idea if it's true. I also have no idea about Blair's sexual preference(s).

What is Mr. Raines sexual orientation??

March 9, 2003:

March 9, 2003

Krystyna Stachowiak and Howell Raines

rystyna Anna Stachowiak, a former marketing and public relations consultant, and Howell Raines, executive editor of The New York Times, were married yesterday at Trinity Episcopal Church in Mount Pocono, Pa. Canon Virginia Rex Day performed the ceremony.

Mrs. Raines, 39, was until recently the executive consultant at Coltrin & Associates, a New York public relations firm. From 1991 to 1995, she was a Washington correspondent for The Warsaw Voice, an English-language weekly.

The bride graduated with a master's degree in English literature from Opole University in Opole, Poland, where her parents, Zofia and Henryk Stachowiak, live. Her father, a former governor of Opole Province, is the chairman of Vendo Ltd., a furniture manufacturer in Opole. Her mother, who is retired, was a supervisor at the Center for Teaching Methodology and an economics teacher at the Economics High School, both in Opole.

Mr. Raines, 60, was editor of The Times's editorial page before becoming executive editor in 2001. He won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1992. He graduated from Birmingham-Southern College and received a master's degree in English from the University of Alabama. His parents, the late Bertha Walker Raines and the late W. S. Raines, lived in Birmingham, where his father was a founder of the Raines Brothers Store Fixture Company.

The bride's previous marriage ended in divorce, as did the bridegroom's.

[Drango]

I was just searching for a list of the fabrications that this guy made.

The NY Times has 20 pages of "stuff", and excuses but it requires registration...The main FR thread is here link

[WhiteKnuckles]

Thank you. I think this will.

Pity the NY Times. They really screwed the pooch on this one. Just the little bit I read is very, very bad.

[Pukka Puck]

First one is red and next one is green. Using Internet Explorer as my browser.

[theFIRMbss]

>Everyone knows nobody is responsible for anything on their own, unless they're conservatives, in which case they're responsible for everything bad that happens.

In the business world,
I think the hypocrisy
runs deeper than this.

Individuals --
"rogue traders," minority
hires, second chancers --

are welcomed when they
bring in corporate profit,
or publicity.

Then these loose cannons
are part of the team. But if
individuals

get caught screwing up,
then corporations make clear
that the loose cannon

was the one problem --
It's not the company that
must get punishment...

So, the company
reaps all the rewards involved,
but washes its hands

of any blame. Geesh!
Heads, corporations win, and
tails, employees lose...

[The Raven]

Here's the corrections

[WhiteKnuckles]

Thanks to you both for the links.

[Petronski]

Please add me to the NYT Schadenfreude list.

[friendly]

Sleazy, dishonest Howell Raines is the real problem here. He is totally destroying the NY Times reputation.

Fire Howell Raines NOW!!

Replace Raines with a competent and honest editor.

[RossA]

There are several under-reported issues here:

1. How much time does it take to check that interviews occurred? Just by calling the interviewee and asking if Blair spoke to him/her.

2. Why not require timely submission of expense reports? Then phantom trips would be detected. This makes sense for BOTH editorial and accounting accuracy.

3. Do other newspapers check stories for accuracy better than the Times? Can they teach the Times how to do this?

4. The Times says nothing about improving its checks on reporters. How many other Jayson Blairs are on its staff? Whey should we think there is only one villain?

5. How did a journalisim student WITHOUT a degree (Blair dropped out of Maryland - according to reports I've seen) get a job with the Times in the first place?

Don't expect the Times' sisters to ask these questions.

[aristeides]

Is Howell Raines behind this, or is Pinch Sulzberger?

[aristeides]

And why was Adam Clymer allowed to resign?

I thought nothing about it when Clymer announced his resignation. But it was right around the time the Blair scandal was taking off, wasn't it?

[Rodney King]

Of course, the Times thinks that it was acting morally when it ruined this man's life by promoting him to a postion that he was wholly unqualified for so that the senior editors could pat themselves on the back at cocktail parties for being such great supporters of diversity.