TIMES IN MUTINY OVER BOSSES' 'WHITEWASH'

New York Post ^ | 5/13/03 | KEITH KELLY and DAN MANGAN

[kattracks]

May 13, 2003 -- The top editors at The New York Times yesterday took the blame for failing to oust disgraced reporter Jayson Blair sooner - but staffers said heads should roll and accused the brass of a "whitewash."

"While we deplore Jayson's conduct, we also recognize that, however difficult it may be, it is the responsibility of The Times, its Publisher, its Executive Editor and its Managing Editor to protect that bond of trust and prevent such occurrences or, at the very least, uncover them rapidly," said a memo to employees.

[Dante3]

It just proves that NY Times is run by incompetent people.

[Diogenesis]

Perhaps in those days, honor was a real thing.

Since Clinton there is no embaressment to liars for lying.

[mewzilla]

So, inquiring minds want to know,why did Raines and Boyd shield Blair?

[PJ-Comix]

"Howell didn't listen . . . to anyone about anything."

"Howell didn't listen . . . to anyone about anything."

"Howell didn't listen . . . to anyone about anything."

"Howell didn't listen . . . to anyone about anything."

"Howell didn't listen . . . to anyone about anything."

"Howell didn't listen . . . to anyone about anything."

[Diogenesis]

Could it be that LYING is part of the backbone at the NYTimes.

Alternatively, they lie, too, and recognized their friend
whom they took from the Boston Globe for his clear and present
habit of lying.

[Ed_in_NJ]

"All the views that fit (ours), we print."

[Fzob]

Sulzberger, quoted in Sunday's article, had laid the blame squarely on Blair, saying "let's not begin to demonize our executives - either the desk editors or the executive editor or, dare I say, the publisher."

I'll bet these are the same guys that were correctly screaming their heads off about holding the boards and executives of financial company responsible for criminal accounting practices. Of course when it's them not dong their jobs we should not rush to judgment.

[Diogenesis]

They found hundreds of his LIES in scores of his fabricated columns [ = NYTimes "News" ].

Did YOU see any corrections in in the NYTimes on these stories today?

[mongrel]

Rush said something interesting on his show yesterday...that you don't see this kind of action by management in the private sector unless there's some form of nepotism going on.

Would this make a productive argument, that affirmative action is institutionalized nepotism. If you hire people based on who they're related to, not merit, and if you protect them for the same reasons, you'll get the same results.

This brings up the argument used by the left, that affirmative action is justified because of nepotism. But if affirmative action is going to be used, perhaps looking at what happens when a company hires the boss's son with a silver spoon is useful.

A significant difference is that a relative can go to another company and "make it on his own." With the pervasiveness of affirmative action, a minority carries the stigma of being "helped" no matter where he goes.

[OldFriend]

They are just mad because this story takes the emphasis away from real news, like why can't a woman join Augusta.

[martin gibson]

Yesterday afternoon Howie Carr was going on and on about Blair not even having a J school BA...

...it looks like Jayson gave the NYT both a black eye and a fat lip...

[OldFriend]

Blair has no degree in ANYTHING. He dropped out of University of Maryland in his senior year.

[driftless]

While the Times has always been liberal, under Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger's stewardship, the Old Grey Lady has slid off the edge of the far left world. Fiascos like this one were predictable understanding the slippage of journalistic ethics and the committment to leftist social engineering by the Time's rulers. It's now up there with The Weekly World News in credibility as far as I'm concerned.

[texson66]

They bend the truth so much that when the truth was finally completely absent they didn't notice - is more like it.

[b4its2late]

The top editors at The New York Times yesterday took the blame for failing to oust disgraced reporter Jayson Blair sooner

Taking the blame like clinton did for all his screwups with no consequences associated for them. Typical liberals.

[Carolina]

Would you add me to your ping list? Thanks. Here's to Howell-Boy's ouster!

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I love it. The NYT lives by the Anonymous Source. Let it die by it.

I haven't been following this story closely...have any of this guy's fabricated "anonymous source" stories been chronicled in the news in the last few days? I hate seeing "anonymous sources" quoted and often have a hard time believing them. But, sometimes they are accurate. What's a news junkie to do?

[metesky]

My point was that except for the hard sciences, we have become an over-credentialed society. What the hell do you need a degree for to go out and tell your readers the who, what, where, why and when of a thing?

Many of the great newsmen never spent a day in a college classroom and they managed to write good, readable articles, truthful and to the point.

Now that papers are overrun with J school grads, we have this spate of liars and plagarists.

School, shmool. Who needs it!

Remember, OF, when most folks knew the rules of writing by the time they hit high school?

[Grampa Dave]

This article is a prime example of the inability of the NY Slimes to even print an article about itself without using the old undisclosed sources.

One Timesman, who asked not to be identified, called Sunday's article a "whitewash" of how management - particularly Raines and Boyd - allowed Blair to work over several years despite dozens of published corrections of his work.

"People felt that management had not been held accountable enough, and the story downplayed their culpability," said the reporter, who singled out Raines' high-handed management style as a key to why Blair survived at the paper for so long. "Howell didn't listen . . . to anyone about anything."

Another staffer said "heads should roll . . . it happened on their watch and because of their watch."

In this very short piece of creative lies and BS, the Slimes has two of its own reporters as undisclosed sources.

The first one enables them to get two lies or what the Editor wanted to publish.

The second named reporter enabled them for the third lie or what the editor wanted to publish.

What slam/lie/DC Mantra has the NY Slimes printed about GW and his administration that didn't use this trick of their, that is so blatant?