Posted on 06/15/2003 2:39:21 AM PDT by Liz
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:14:44 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A group of 30 former student journalists at the University of Maryland say disgraced reporter Jayson Blair wrote questionable articles and manipulated his mentors while on campus in the mid-1990s - just as he did at The New York Times.
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Has the NYT check their books lately? Or are they holding back more information from the public about Blair's scams? Or maybe the gullible liberals still have no clue.
I tend to think they knew something but as we now know, gullible liberals, with their copout thinking, probably said, "Oh schucks, Jayson's a swell guy, that's just racist talk.'
Gramps, this incites me to go into my un-PC rant. So, hang in there, here goes:
Knee-jerk liberals took the world's best meritocracy system and cannibalized it, putting it through the political correctness meatgrinder. Liberal cannibals effectively silenced free speech and all reasonable arguments against their PC atrocities by employing the club of hate crime laws (which penalize only conservatives).
PC and hate crimes laws have outlived their usefulness. They are the Prohibition of this era. Prohibtion was necessarily repealed b/c it caused social chaos and a crime wave. We have yet to tally the crimes caused by PC atrocities and hate crimes laws, but it is huge.
The Blair debacle epitomizes the devastation wrought upon America due to hate crimes laws and PC.
Thankfully, astute conservatives have always seen right through these self-serving liberal phonies and their arrogant use of PC and hate crimes laws to stifle criticism
If they did, I'm sure it didn't faze them. The Sulzbergers have never shied away from inveterate liars on their staff. Case in point is Walter Duranty. Many decades after the NYT's deliberate white-washing of Stalin's atrocities through that correspondent's articles, they still stand behind him.
So why would they be taken aback by a penny ante liar like Blair? If other papers hadn't raised a ruckus and caused them embarassment, he would still be working there. And so would Raines and Boyd, despite their incompetence and the demoralization they continued to cause among NYT staff.
IMO, the only "mistake" they intend to correct is the plagiarism of other newsmens' work. As they have discovered, that is the one transgression that will cause other mainstream media liberals to turn on them with a vengeance. Everything else gets a pass. Dowd and others at the NYT will all continue to lie and will all get a pass. All they have to do is not step on the wrong toes.
A more recent useful New York Times idiot was Sydney Schanberg. On April 13, 1975, an article he wrote from Phnom Penh was titled: "Indochina without Americans: for most, a better life."
oops...
Sidney, of course, still has his Pulitzer.
Not a Republican giveth a speech at Bob Jones University without the New York Times taketh note. But the Times has a real problem noticing when millions of dead bodies are littering the streets of communist hell-holes.
An un-PC history of the NYT came out a few years ago, detailing a lot of this. It may even have had the words "gray lady" in the title or subtitle. I've looked for it without success. Do you recall this book or its author?
Dear Sidney,
This is a FReeper official notice: Give back the Pulitzer or we'll Freep the beejeezus out of you.
Signed, Liz
FR Swat Team General
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of the "New Society" and Human Rights in Cambodia, April 1975 - December 1978 |
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| . | April- June 1975 |
July- Dec. 1975 |
Jan.- June 1976 |
July- Dec. 1976 |
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July- Dec. 1977 |
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| ABC | . | |||||||||
| . | Time | 0:20 | 4:10 | 3:10 | -- | -- | -- | 0:30 | 3:15 | 11:25 |
| Number of stories | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| CBS | . | |||||||||
| . | Time | 1:00 | -- | 2:30 | 3:40 | 2:30 | 3:40 | 11:40 | 3:55 | 28:55 |
| Number of stories | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 13 | |
| NBC | . | |||||||||
| . | Time | 1:00 | 2:20 | -- | -- | 0:40 | 4:00 | 6:40 | 2:55 | 17:35 |
| Number of stories | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | |
Wouldn't it be great if the New York Times morgue was on CD? Imagine what we would find.
Fox News carried the Duranty story again tonight. All the paper will say is that he won the Pulitzer for an earlier dispatch which didn't deny the Holodomor. End of story.
So they think.
Hehe. I'm afraid the NYT can't win this one. Either they cave on the Duranty Pulitzer or the controversy never goes away. Does the NYT really want people constantly hearing about how the Gray Lady hid the murders of millions of innocent people under her skirts?
Of course, the Pulitzer committee may wind up making the decision for them.
Thanks, Liz, but it's not the Talese book. If I find it, I'll buzz you and DPB.
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