BLAIR'S (GAL)PAL ALSO LEAVES NEWSPAPER

New York Post ^ | 5/14/03 | KEITH KELLY and JENNIFER GOULD

[kattracks]

May 14, 2003 -- A New York Times clerk who is a gal pal of disgraced ex-reporter Jayson Blair has left the paper amid questions about her possible role in his journalistic misdeeds.

Zuza Glowacka "is currently not working at the Times," said newspaper spokeswoman Catherine Mathis, who described her as a temp.

[Timesink]

Schadenfreude

This is the New York Times Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.

[Travis McGee]

The plot thickens.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Zuza Glowacka

Wasn't that the name of one of the things in the bar scene of Star Wars?

[onyx]

Incestuous bunch.

[Allan]

Nice to know one NYT reporter had a girl friend.

[Madstrider]

Zuza Glowacka Wasn't that the name of one of the things in the bar scene of Star Wars?

No, it was one of those Iraqi villages on the Euphrates where the Fedayeen ambushed our troops.

[Madstrider]

Glowacka's mother, Ewa Zadrzynska, a journalist, is a close friend of Krystyna Stachowiak, who is married to Raines. ... Glowacka's last known address was her parents' Upper West Side apartment where Blair was a regular visitor, neighbors said.

How progressive ....

[Bonaparte]

"Nice to know one NYT reporter had a girl friend."

I think it said "gal pal." For all we know, they were singing show tunes at her parents' place.

[Miss Marple]

According to this program on an environmental symposium on the Black Sea, Ewa Zadrynska is or was a correspondent for ITAR/Tass:

link here for list of reporters in the symposium

Hers is the last name on the list.

[Miss Marple]

Then, of course, I felt compelled to search on Ewa's mother, and found this interesting passage from a site which comments on media matters:

THE spiking of a piece about the public relations business has staffers at the New York Times wondering: was the column killed because it attacked a P.R. technique often used by flack Krystyna Stachowiak, fiancee of Times executive editor Howell Raines?

"The axed piece by Manhattan publicity executive Jeff Barge blasted his industry as a 'deceptive business' in which newspapers are fed 'quotes that are just plain fabricated by the P.R. people.' It might have cut too close to the bone, because eloquent Stachowiak, 38, has in the past provided newspapers with English-language quotes from her non-English-speaking client, Polish president Alexander Kwasniewski."

The link to buzz.weblogs is Here

[mewzilla]

Uh oh. I think my tinfoil chapeau might be on too tight. Now I'm wondering if something else might be afoot here. Nah...Couldn't be.

[Miss Marple]

Now in THIS article from the Warsaw Voice,(link here) I find Ewa and Krystyna listed but no mention that they are related:

The idea for the exhibit came from Polish journalists who live in the United States permanently-Ewa Zdarzyñska, Krystyna Stachowiak and Ewa Wierzyñska. These women pored over thousands of Western newspapers and magazines and discovered that Poland had been featured on front pages and covers over 2,000 times. At the exhibit, 58 articles from these are presented.

[Miss Marple]

Oh, I am not done yet. If only I could read Polish! There is a lot of stuff I can't translate.

Also, there is ANOTHER Krystyna Stachowiak who is a doctor of chemistry with published papers. I am interested in if that is her mother.

More to come...stay tuned.

[mewzilla]

I've been reading too many thrillers. I hope Raines is just a loony.

[Miss Marple]

Krystyna is one of four senior vice-president in very large, international PR firm, Coltrin and Associates.

[mewzilla]

Look at the bottom of that web site's case studies page. Note the reference to a defense contractor and CNN. I'm gonna need more tinfoil :(

[DainBramage]

Check out Interaccess inc. A temp service run by the Momma.

http://www.interaccessinc.com/About_us/team.htm

[DainBramage]

Russia, Ukraine, Poland...Large Network of ethnic Talent?

[Miss Marple]

I saw that. I wonder when that occurred. Obviously CNN's involvement makes me a bit curious.

Cue "The Twilight Zone" theme.