Posted on 06/13/2003 5:02:47 AM PDT by kattracks
A week after The New York Times' two top editors resigned amid fallout from the Jayson Blair reporting scandal, the paper identified 10 more articles by the ex-staffer that required corrections.An editors' note published yesterday said the 10 stories included "misstatements or possibly borrowed passages, or quotations that have been denied by the speaker to whom they were attributed."
The latest tally raised to 46 the number of Blair articles in which The Times has uncovered problems, including a case of plagiarism in April that forced his resignation on May 1.
The new total does not take into account 54 other corrections on stories with Blair's byline that The Times published before he resigned.
Yesterday's roundup included articles reviewed since May 11, when The Times ran a long account of Blair's troubled history at the paper and invited the public to report other problems in his stories.
Among the issues detailed in yesterday's rundown, found on the Web site NYTimes.com, five people denied making statements that Blair attributed to them.
In addition, two stories contained material that closely resembled information previously published elsewhere.
According to the Web site, a team of Times staffers "are continuing to examine" Blair's work.
Blair, who plans to write a book, said in an E-mail that he had no comment.
The Newspaper Guild, which represents 750 journalists at The Times, recently expressed concern over reports that some other staffers were "under investigation for mistakes" in the wake of the Blair case and the paper's call for reader complaints.
However, Lena Williams, the head of the Guild unit at The Times, told the Daily News yesterday, "It hasn't gone any further beyond Rick Bragg."
Bragg resigned May 28, five days after The Times, responding to a reader's letter, revealed that the interviewing and reporting in one of the correspondent's stories were done by an uncredited freelance journalist.
Meanwhile, the Guild and The Times were set to begin round-the-clock negotiations this weekend toward a new labor contract.
A big issue for the Guild is the paper's refusal since January to extend a "no layoffs" guarantee, written into the contract that expired in March.
Guild members ranked job security as their No. 1 priority in the new bargaining.
Spokeswoman Catherine Mathis said The Times had no comment on the contract talks.
Originally published on June 13, 2003
A big issue for the Guild is the paper's refusal since January to extend a "no layoffs" guarantee, written into the contract that expired in March.
The NYT can't guarantee the worker bees lifetime security? I thought the workers' paradise had to begin somewhere...why not at the rag that preaches it overtly AND covertly?
I think you're onto something, especially in the light of Blair being fresh out of college (or nearly so) when he was hired. I remember a few college classmates cheating on exams when they were more than knowledgeable about the course material.
That's a crock. Union leaders always claim job security is the top priority. That way, when negotiations are over, they can claim they got some provision that will save workers jobs, and in the end it always turns out to be hogwash.
Money is the top priority. Always. If the surveys of members were tallied by outside authorities, that's what the results would show. But unions give members their little surveys and then always claim that job security was the No. 1 request no matter what the results actually were.
If union leaders went into negotiations saying that money was the top priority, they'd actually have to accomplish something. Those 1.5 percent raises they wind up with would look even more pitiful.
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