"The Battle for the Newsroom" (Jayson Blair/NY Times Scandal)

New York Metro ^ | 5/26/03 | Carl Swanson

[Tamzee]

The Grey Lady sold her soul long ago and became a banshee...how refreshing to see the world get a glimpse of the real corruption and rot behind the NYT.

[Travis McGee]

And the hastily called “town hall” meeting, on May 14, hadn’t helped, with its gauntlet of news cameras, reporters, and a hectoring man in a Saddam Hussein mask and well-worn loafers carrying a sign announcing FORMER NYT REPORTER, WILL LIE FOR FOOD. “It was the most depressing and humiliating thing,” said one Metro reporter.

[martin_fierro]

And the hastily called ?town hall? meeting, on May 14, hadn?t helped, with its gauntlet of news cameras, reporters, and a hectoring man in a Saddam Hussein mask and well-worn loafers carrying a sign announcing FORMER NYT REPORTER, WILL LIE FOR FOOD.
"It was the most depressing and humiliating thing," said one Metro reporter.

Sound like anyone you know?? <|:)~

[TheMole]

And the hastily called “town hall” meeting, on May 14, hadn’t helped, with its gauntlet of news cameras, reporters, and a hectoring man in a Saddam Hussein mask and well-worn loafers carrying a sign announcing FORMER NYT REPORTER, WILL LIE FOR FOOD.

ROFL! Was that a Freeper?

[Travis McGee]

GMTA!!!!

That just leaped out at all of us!

[Lancey Howard]

"...and a hectoring man in a Saddam Hussein mask and well-worn loafers carrying a sign announcing FORMER NYT REPORTER, WILL LIE FOR FOOD.

"a hectoring man", LOL!
They could at least have said, "a hectoring freeper".

[Lancey Howard]

Raines went relentlessly after Bill Clinton on his editorial page

Just double-checking.... This is a lie, right?

[thegreatbeast]

I like this, the last line:
'"You’re sitting in the room with giants in the business,” said the reporter. "It was mortifying.”'
It is better left to posterity to name the giants in the business. Thinking that you working and hobnobbing with giants is a bit grandiose. That kind of attitude will creep into the reportage.

[Consort]

Did Jayson Blair replace Larry King, yet?

[Lancey Howard]

“There’s this atmosphere of immaturity. There’s a lot of laughter over silly things. It’s the way he uses football metaphors. It’s almost like he’s brought down the dignity of the place. He’s taken away this self-image people have built up over decades.”

Man, that went away long ago. The Old Gray Whore is just another big-city DNC mouthpiece, with no "dignity" left.

[Lancey Howard]

“There’s this atmosphere of immaturity. There’s a lot of laughter over silly things. It’s the way he uses football metaphors. It’s almost like he’s brought down the dignity of the place. He’s taken away this self-image people have built up over decades.”

Man, that went away long ago. The Old Gray Whore is just another big-city DNC mouthpiece, with no "dignity" left.

[Lancey Howard]

“The black reporters are really angry,” says one reporter. Because Blair opened the door to the idea that maybe they didn’t deserve to be there.

Then these "black reporters" are nincompoops. Blair didn't open that door - - that door has been wide open for decades, kicked off its hinges by "affirmative action", Democrat style.

[Timesink]

Schadenfreude

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

[Imal]

Hmmmmm, bald-faced liars versus dirty liars versus sneaky liars, all of whom worship the King of Liars. This is starting to get confusing.

I would trade them all for a good old-fashioned honest liar.

Baghdad Bob, the New York Times needs you to bring integrity back to their badly soiled news staff!

[martin_fierro]

Raines went relentlessly after Bill Clinton on his editorial page
Just double-checking.... This is a lie, right?

"[W]ent relentlessly after Bill Clinton" means "Raines humped X42's leg."

[mrustow]

A precocious kid from suburban Washington, D.C., he’d written for his high-school newspaper and many letters to the local papers.

Oh, but of course. Write a little (and not particularly well) for your high school newspaper, get some letters to editors published, and you're ripe and ready for the Times!

More AA damage control, this time more subtle than the others.

[martin_fierro]

Blair looks particularly coked-up in this 1997 Boston Globe photo.

[martin_fierro]

"But that's partly because he's a total cokehead," said a friend.

"It's totally why he picked Boyd, and he's not the best person for the job," says one well-placed Timesman.

"Its totally a boys' club," says one veteran.

"He'd keep the company car for weeks at a time. He'd take one and be gone for a month. There were like two in Metro."

These "Timesmen" speak like doped-out Malibu surfers. Dude, like totally.

[backhoe]

-The Old Grey Info-Slut... the NYT/Jayson Blair Affair--