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MITCH ALBOM: Jayson Blair failed truth and himself ("[IT] WAS ABOUT RACE.")
Detroit Free Press ^ | May 25, 2003 | Mitch Albom

Posted on 05/27/2003 9:37:10 AM PDT by Timesink

Edited on 05/07/2004 7:13:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

In the days after Jayson Blair resigned in shame from the New York Times, everyone tried to reach him. Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, old friends, colleagues. He spoke to almost no one.

But he did call one person -- an agent named David Vigliano about a book and movie deal. Those deals are now in motion. And that's all you need to know about Jayson Blair.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: falsification; howellraines; jaysonblair; mediafraud; medialies; mitchalbom; newyorktimes; nyt; plagiarism; thenewyorktimes
I can't believe Mitch Albom wrote this!!
1 posted on 05/27/2003 9:37:11 AM PDT by Timesink
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To: martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; Miss Marple; Tamsey; ...

Schadenfreude

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


2 posted on 05/27/2003 9:37:36 AM PDT by Timesink
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To: Timesink
I can't help but wonder how many more sociopaths are working for the NY Slimes. Given that Liberalism is a haven for sociopaths.
3 posted on 05/27/2003 9:46:19 AM PDT by Search4Truth (When a man lies, he murders part of the world.)
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To: Timesink
I can't believe Mitch Albom wrote this!!

Even though The Detroit Free Press has a strong left-wing bias, I give them credit for at least attempting to be credible journalists. That's more than can be said for the hypocrits at the NY Times who have yet to make adequate atonement for this travesty. It is insufficient for the Times to simply publish mea culpas, retractions and corrections. Heads must roll, and not just those of scapegoats.

4 posted on 05/27/2003 9:50:04 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Timesink
N.Y. Times =

Suspended PULITZER Reporter BRAGG


A.P. =

Bogus PULITZER Winner


'Associated Press must return it's bogus -NO GUN RI- PULITZER'

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=509
5 posted on 05/27/2003 9:53:07 AM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.LZXRAY.com..)
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To: Timesink
Blair is a minor matter. He will get big TV and Book deals, but being a Flash guy, he will blow it in a couple of years.
Then he will spend the rest of his life living under a bridge telling the other wiinos he used to "be somebody"

Meanwhile, the Times is self destructing.

So9

6 posted on 05/27/2003 9:55:00 AM PDT by Servant of the Nine (A Goldwater Republican)
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To: Timesink
I can't believe Mitch Albom wrote this!!

He's an honest, gun-grabbing, pro-war Liberal member of the media. The group is a large sub-class of the media elite, and the only sub-class of the Liberal media to have any success at all with regularly scheduled syndicated radio talkshows.

7 posted on 05/27/2003 10:00:00 AM PDT by RightWhale (looking at shadows)
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To: Timesink
I can't believe Mitch Albom wrote this!!

Well, it's like this. Every prostitute has one thing they "won't do", whatever that may be. When a prostitute comes along that WILL do anything and everything, the other prostitutes all look down on that woman.

This is why political prostitutes like US senators and congressmen all looked down on Clinton-sure they take graft, but "at least --I-- never sold the Chinese the W88 nuke plans". And newspaper presstitutes are the same way.

If Jayson had stuck to the standard set of liberal lies (Reagan was an idiot, Republicans want to starve your grandmother, business owners are greedy bastards), there would have been no complaints. The problem is, he lied about other stuff.

8 posted on 05/27/2003 10:06:02 AM PDT by ikka
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To: Timesink
I'm sure Blair, the Milli Vanilli of journalists, has a job waiting with the DNC. Liars need a liar with the talents Mr. Blair possesses.
9 posted on 05/27/2003 10:09:06 AM PDT by Ol' Sparky
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I can - A broken clock's right twice a day....

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If you want on (or off) of my black conservative ping list, please let me know via FREEPmail. (And no, you don't have to be black to be on the list!)

Extra warning: this is a high-volume ping list.

10 posted on 05/27/2003 7:18:11 PM PDT by mhking
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To: mhking
Or as a friend of mine used to say - even the sun shines on a dog's butt every now and then.
11 posted on 05/27/2003 7:33:25 PM PDT by Nick The Freeper
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To: mhking
I can - A broken clock's right twice a day....

I disagree with this assertion. A clock is "right" when you can trust it to give you the accurate time of day. Not just the 2 seconds out of the remaing 86,398 seconds that it is dead wrong. This writer got it right at least once. Can Blair make that statement?


Eaker

12 posted on 05/27/2003 7:38:28 PM PDT by Eaker (64,999,987 firearm owners killed no one yesterday. Somehow, it didn't make the news.)
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To: ikka
LOL!
True, true.
13 posted on 05/27/2003 7:44:34 PM PDT by eddie willers
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