My Turn: I?m Only Guilty of Being a Good Friend (Jayson Blair's "Zuza": I'M THE VICTIM! WAAAH!)

Newsweek ^ | June 2, 2003 | Zuza Glowacka

[Timesink]

The author with her now-notorious boyfriend

My Turn: I’m Only Guilty of Being a Good Friend

The Jayson I know is a kind and gifted man—but our relationship cost me my job and my credibility

By Zuza Glowacka
NEWSWEEK

June 2 issue —  I understand what Elizabeth Bishop meant when, in her poem “One Art,” she wrote, “The art of losing isn’t hard to master.” In the weeks since I’ve had to resign from my job because a close friend of mine, Jayson Blair, was caught plagiarizing and fabricating, I’ve lost my privacy, my credibility and many of my longtime friends. A few weeks ago I was a young employee of The New York Times, one of the most respected newspapers in the world. Now I’m known to the world as the 23-year-old mysterious Polish emigre, caught up in possibly the biggest scandal in the history of journalism and certainly the biggest scandal in the history of my life thus far.

I NEVER THOUGHT that losing would be the first art I’d master. I would have preferred for it to be writing, which has been a passion of mine for years. I seemed to be walking down the right path to becoming a writer. I was working as a news clerk at the Times, writing a novel after hours and becoming friends with a man I believed to be a gifted reporter when everything began to fall apart.

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[Timesink]

And just how much did Newsweek pay you for this prime writing gig, Zuza? Some "suffering," you pig. Looks like you REALLLLLY care about your "privacy," don't you?

You WHINY SNOBBY SNOT.

[Timesink]

Schadenfreude

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

[mewzilla]

Notice that Newsweek, home of Spikey Isikoff, was the rag to give her a forum. I'm sure she felt right at home.

[KevinB]

Dogs/Fleas

[Timesink]

I have never seen so much pathetic "me me me" whining in a major newsmagazine before ... EVER.

[Sir Gawain]

I also recognize one last irony—that my peripheral involvement in this story has made people interested in my writing in a way they wouldn’t have been had I just been 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.

Get over yourself.

[Uncle Hal]

If uou sleep with dogs you get fleas.

[Mr. K]

My thoughts exactly- who is giving jobs to these 'children'?

[Timesink]

My thoughts exactly- who is giving jobs to these 'children'?

Affirmative action programs within the company and connections to Howell Raines, as usual.

[Grampa Dave]

NewsWeak is the next left wing lunatic nest of liars that needs to be exposed.

[river rat]

I am at a loss, to imagine just what the hell a 23 year old whiny assed kid can have experienced or come to understand enough to write a "novel".....

She can't be too bright, to have "taken up" with a drug induced, lying, cowardly and ungrateful clymer....

Semper Fi

[ken5050]

She looks like Chelsea, doncha think?

[Grampa Dave]

I'm glad you posted that. I wondered if the First Black President should have a dna check with her.

[88keys]

"Get over yourself", indeed!!! Couldn't agree more...this is just too amusing...

"I still hope that I will not be judged solely based on my friendship with Jayson..."

...some friend! Sounds like a "main-chancer" to me...

"...just as I hope that the credibility of the legendary New York Times will not be judged based on his mistakes."

The NYT's credibility will be based on their decision to hire people who write things like:

"The first time I saw my name printed in the paper in connection with this scandal, I was surprised to find myself labeled as a Polish emigre, considering the fact I had moved to America at the age of 4 and have lived in New York ever since. I attended high school and college in America, and consider myself to be quite American. Maybe I’m too sensitive. Most emigres are..."

followed by :

"Being born in Poland during communist times, where the media constantly replaced reality with fiction, I’m very aware of the importance of honesty and of the destructive power of printed lies. I believe that lies should be exposed, but I never suspected that during the process of exposing lies, so many inaccuracies can arise."

So, is she American? Polish? are "lies" worse than "inaccuracies"? She clearly doesn't have a clue, and is whiney to boot...I don't think she need worry about her writing being "judged" solely on the basis of her "friendly relationship" with Blair...

So why did the NYT hire her in the first place, discriminating (in the best sense of the word) readers? Perhaps:

"because my parents are social acquaintances of the Times’s executive editor, my family was brought into the mess...."

LOL!!!!

[CaptRon]

Now I’m known to the world as the 23-year-old mysterious Polish emigre, caught up in possibly the biggest scandal in the history of journalism and certainly the biggest scandal in the history of my life thus far.

Never heard of her.

[razorback-bert]

Yep, got that Ivy League starving artist (black turtleneck, frizzy hair) look down.

[OldFriend]

Her mommy and Raines' wife are best friends.........nuff said!<P<She got her job the same way piglet got hers.

[Helms]

I Was The Fluffer at The NYT (2003), A Very Short Story and Film by Jason Blair

Directed by Ithaca College film students Michael Wills, Joshua Leone, and Heather Tyler Moore -Donahue

Synopsis: A story of obsession, submission, money and sexuality set in the elite print media and industry. While riffing the elite print media industry, the dark tale is centered around three NYT employees: Howell Raines --a hot-blooded "go for it" Manhattan Media star; Jason Blair--the young naive Afro-American kid who moves to Manhattan to pursue a career in elite journalism; and Jason's long-time stripper girlfriend and former Times clerk Zuza Glowacka,, aka Babylon.

When Jason rents "Citizen Kane" and is accidentally given a copy of a Howell Raines' NYT Editorial on " Diversity, Southern Intellectual Heritage and the Afro-American Male", he becomes so obsessed with the beefy NYT top executive that he gets a job as a entry level journalist with Howell's newspaper company in order to be near him. It doesn't take long before he steps beyond his job description to a more intimate role as Howell's Fluffer--the one responsible for getting the top Executive mentally aroused before and between editorials and board meetings devoted towards "diversity" and in a serials of breathtaking reports from the field and from his impeccable furnished and maintained apartment in "the city". While Babylon navigates her clients, and Howell negotiates the inhabitants of the NYT political underworld, both struggle to keep the man they love from falling further into a world of drugs and despair.

DISCLAIMER: THE ABOVE IS ALL SO LOOSELY ATTRIBUTED TO THE SOURCES BELOW AND IS MEANT FOR INSTRUCTIONAL AND COMICAL RELIEF ONLY. ANY SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THIS AND REAL EVENTS IS ONLY CIRCUMSTANTIAL AND IS IMPROVABLE IN A COURT OF LAW

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