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Posted on 05/26/2003 2:44:30 AM PDT by Liz
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:09:55 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
It was the summer of 1997, and Jayson T. Blair was at the center of a newsroom controversy.
Blair, then 21, was sitting in the glass-walled office of assistant managing editor Louisa Williams. The door was closed. Just six weeks into a 12-week summer internship, Blair had already cut a considerable swath through The Boston Globe. In some respects, he was exactly what editors look for in a reporter: nervy, enterprising, prolific, eager to arrive early and stay late.
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I hope the New York Times is forced to rehire and pay restitution to Blair for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. PLEASE let it happen. HEY JASON!....SUE THE OLD GRAY WHORE!!!
And don't miss the implications of restraining free speech b/c of the PC atrocity and hate crimes laws.
As I indicated above, hate crime laws and PC cause chaos and protect liars and frauds like the Times-Blair fiasco. That's why they have outlived their usefulness and must be abolished.
PC and hate crimes laws are this era's moral equivalent of Prohibition. Prohibition was necessarily repealed b/c it caused chaos and a crime wave.
Via Blair, we are now seeing the devastation wrought upon America due to hate crimes laws and PC.
What's fascinating is how offended journalists get when someone else is being the cocky, nosy, arrogant, rumor-monger who invents things and gets their facts wrong about them.
When it hits *their* lives and livelihoods, they get just as defensive and upset as you or I, even though they pull this crap on the rest of us all the time in pursuit of the "story".
I have a friend who was the focus of a national news story last summer. Major League Baseball was threatening some fan websites that had used the pictures and logos of Major League teams.
My friend was interviewed by a dozen or so media outlets and quoted in stories about the situation. Some of the stories included "quotes" attributed to him which were verbatims from the website, not quotes from himself (they were not written in a way one who answer a question - they were statements that were informative for visitors to a website. Then the misquotes would be picked up and re-written into other writer's stories, further distorting what he meant to say.
It took him about six times of being misquoted or misrepresented before he learned there were certain parts to the story that he just wasn't going to comment about or speculate on. His "15 minutes of fame" were quite an education about American journalism.
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It's not too late.
NOTHING about Jayson Blair should be accepted as fact without independent confirmation, that's for sure.
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