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.
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.