NYT REPORTER: I WAS GOING TO KILL MYSELF; SHAMED BLAIR PREPARES 5-PAGE BOOK PROPOSAL

DRUDGE REPORT ^ | May 20, 2003 | MATT DRUDGE

[George W. Bush]

He's writing a book to tell us the truth about all the lying he's done in print at the Times?

This will be epic.

[Liz]

Top Ten Signs The New York Times Is Slipping


10. Instead of "All The News That's Fit To Print," slogan is "Stuff We Heard From A Guy Who Says His Friend Heard About It"

9. President does something on the TV show "West Wing," next day it's on front page

8. It's 108 pages, and there's not one single vowel

7. For every story, accompanying photo is Tony Danza

6. Obituary has become list of people editors wish would die

5. Dick Cheney consistently referred to as "the dude from those Wendy's commercials"

4. Notice on sports page: "All scores are approximate"

3. Only ad in job classifieds: "Wanted -- someone who knows how to put together a damn newspaper"

2. For last two weeks, edited by a disoriented Anne Heche

1. They're endorsing George W. Bush

[mass55th]

"I WAS GOING TO KILL MYSELF"

Don't let us hold you back. There's still plenty of time!!

[eddie willers]

[If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative action hire, how come they didn't they catch me?"]

Am I missing something here?

No....Jayson is.

He thinks that people believe that an Affirmative Action hire means that you have hired somebody who couldn't cut the mustard.

Nope....that's not the problem, Jayson.
The problem is that, because of Affirmative Action programs, you don't know the difference!

Criteria should actually mean something!.

A skilled black doctor from a college that "Celebrates Its Diversity" by passing out unearned diplomas is poorly served....as are the patients who will bypass his talents because of his (unfortunately) tainted accomplishment.

[Vinnie_Vidi_Vici]

Personally, I think he should forget the book and go with his FIRST idea, To kill himself, and I hope many of his fellow Times comrades follow suit, It would certainly clean out the lower end of the gene pool.

[Right_in_Virginia]

"Protected, my ass,” he said. “I spent days in the smoking room, days of my life in the smoking room complaining about how I wasn't protected. Protected by whom?”

Days spent complaining he wasn't protected? Oh, please. Am I supposed to feel sorry for him? Is this supposed to explain why he did what he did?

[Liz]

I was going to kill myself ....until I saw that journo fraud Stephen Glass on "60 Minutes" hyping his asinine book.

If that scumbag Glass could make a buck on his sleazy New Republic fraud, I knew that
I'd pulled a scam on guys like Boyd, Raines and "Pinch," and that I was going to be a
millionaire.

[Liz]

Personally, I think he should forget the book and go with his FIRST idea, To kill himself....

You're a bundle of encouragement, you are. LOL.

[Liz]

"I WAS GOING TO KILL MYSELF".......Don't let us hold you back. There's still plenty of time!!

Yeah, Jayson, don't be too hasty. Usually one's first idea is the best course of action.

[Liz]

.....the Oriental "honorable way" is falling on your sword.....

[Miss Marple]

Aside from my excessive schadenfreude at the continuing dicomfiture of Howell Raines, I am thinking that this is obviously a lesson in race relations.

Because of the excessive emphasis on victimology and the emphasis on how racist white Americans are, civil rights leaders have done a disservice to the people they say they are helping.

It is my impression that some black people feel that all whites are inherently racist. They view everything through that prism. Jayson apparently is one of these unfortunates.

Viewed through this prism, any action of his superiors was suspect. When they assigned him a story, they were being patronizing, or they were setting him up for a fall. When passed over for an assignment, he felt he was being discriminated against. When invited out for a drink, he was the token. When people asked his opinion, they were trying to get something on him.

It is a sad way to go through life, but it is directly attributable to the left's harping on race for the last 30 or so years.

I don't know if there is a solution to this, and I would welcome black feepers to tell me if I am over-emphasizing this attitude. I do not think it universal, but I do think that susceptible people are harmed and there are lots of Jaysons out there, in various careers. It isn't that they aren't smart or talented; it is that they have been emotionally handicapped by the messages they have been fed.

This is not to say that there aren't plenty of white racists, by the way. I run into them myself from time to time.

[lawdude]

"...will focus largely how his race and substance abuse played a significant role in his downfall from the TIMES! "

Let's see. His downfall is because he is a black junkie? OK

[RightWhale]

5 pages is 4 pages too much. If he can't condense his proposal, no one will read it due to no one being able to read his book. Especially the editor.

[Dog Gone]

Jayson was caught, and why he thinks he got away with it is a puzzle to me.

I guess he thinks that he could have been caught sooner.

Which he could have. They cut him slack from the start. You still see little mention of the fact that he was a college dropout. How many other college dropouts were hired and put on the national desk?

Yes, he was cut extra slack because he was black and good looking and ambitious. He was a poster child for everything the NY Times believes in. And I don't even have a big problem with that, unfair as it may be to better qualified applicants. It was the continued tolerance of shoddy reporting, someone who clearly was lying, and someone who clearly had performance problems from the start.

It's one thing to stand by an employee who gets into drugs or booze and help them get out of it. But you don't do that with employees who were defrauding you all along. Worse, you don't do that with someone who was defrauding the public all along.

Both Jayson and the New York Times have much to be ashamed about. It certainly doesn't look like either is admitting it.

[Cicero]

What does he mean by "relationships"?

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

NYT REPORTER: I WAS GOING TO KILL MYSELF(but I couldn't get the OIC to give me Vince Foster's suicide note to plagiarize); SHAMED BLAIR PREPARES 5-PAGE BOOK PROPOSAL

[RedBloodedAmerican]

He still is lying.

Dear Mr. Blair: actions have consequences. Take responsibility for your life.

[Kieri]

There's only one appropriate title for Blair's so-called book.

Pack Of Lies

[Bigg Red]

He said his actions were part of a pattern of destructive behaviors that stemmed from the stresses of journalism.

How about they stemmed from a lack of scruples? Whatever happened to having a sense of shame over one's own wrongdoing? Let's see...do I kill myself or make a killing by writing a book. What a jerk!