Race seen as factor in reporting scandal [Re: Fake "journalist" Jayson Blair]

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, May 13, 2003 | By Jennifer Harper

[JohnHuang2]

The New York Times has become a case study on the effects of affirmative action in the newsroom since the resignation of Jayson Blair, a black reporter who left the paper May 1 under charges of plagiarism and fraud.

A memo to Times staffers yesterday from Publisher Arthur Sulzburger, Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald M. Boyd said that "our organizational safeguards and our individual responses were insufficient," and it guaranteed "improved safeguards."

[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, May 13, 2003

Quote of the Day by Pres Raygun

[farmfriend]

I just love the way people twist what is said. All these quotes about how the reporter's color played no part in his bad reporting shows that they missed the point in general. No body was saying he was a bad reporter because he was black. They were saying that the Times' editors not firing him earlier was the result of the reporters color. I would like to have seen some of these people quoted on their opinion of that issue.

[hatfieldmccoy]

Okay, I want to know who in the freeper universe is "shocked, yes, shocked I tell you!" with the news that this lib rag was commiting felony affirmative action. Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, the NYT has gotta look the other way....

[Timesink]

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