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Posted on 05/26/2003 1:17:06 AM PDT by kattracks
The gal pal of New York Times plagiarist Jayson Blair says she disagrees with the "offensive statements he's been making" - and only recently figured out that the scandal has ruined her credibility."When Jayson was caught, it came as a big shock and betrayal to the world as well as to me," Zuza Glowacka writes in the current issue of Newsweek.
Glowacka, 23, resigned from her job as a Times news clerk after Blair was caught plagiarizing and fabricating stories. He was forced to resign from the paper, which has been thrown into turmoil by the scandal.
Since her close friend's downfall, Glowacka has seemed to revel in the media attention.
She agreed to pose alongside Blair for magazine and newspaper photos, and also sat with him during an interview with The New York Observer as he mocked his former editors and accused The Times of racism.
Now she says his comments were "hurtful and hateful."
"When the piece showed up in the press, it seemed as if I had tacitly agreed with him, and we were even described as a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde," she writes in Newsweek. "When I put it all together, I realized that my presence in the articles made me look not only like a loyal friend, but also like a co-conspirator."
Glowacka and her parents, Polish emigres, are friends of Times executive editor Howell Raines and his Polish-born wife, Krystyna Stachowiak.
Times staffers have questioned whether her connections helped Blair, a 27-year-old reporter, win better assignments. She has denied she ever helped him deceive the paper by getting him photographs that he used to fabricate stories.
In Newsweek, Glowacka said that before the scandal, she was just "another aspiring novelist with a job at a big-city newspaper."
"I still hope that I will not be judged solely based on my friendship with Jayson, just as I hope that the credibility of the legendary New York Times will not be judged based on his mistakes," she wrote.
Originally published on May 26, 2003
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ROFL! Reality come back to bite you on the ass, baby? Too bad, so sad!
Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
Sounds like a Frank Zappa Album.
But I thought about it, and now I realize I wasn't only being portrayed as a loyal friend, but also a co-terrorist.
I worked for NY Times, and, like everyone else who worked there, and who bought this fishwrap, I too am a moron.
CNN lied to the masses.
I really hate it when Extra Super Double-Plus Good friendships sour.
The biggest "shock and betrayal" to this girl were probably the accusations that Blair was the boy toy for a largely homosexual editorial staff. I wonder if she's had herself tested for HIV?
Eurotrash and the Times' black eye/fat lip.
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