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[Russell Scott]

Does Saddam or Saudi Arabia own the N.Y. Times?

[Big Bunyip]

If you do a Google on "Jason Leopold" you'll find him listed as West Coast editor for Fairchild's "Footwear News."

I guess Enron is a bit more of a challenge to cover than flats vs. heels.

[Cicero]

Sleazy journalism. The Times has always had a dishonest streak, but under Howell Raines it seems to be hitting new lows every day.

Krugman has about as much credibility as Maureen Dowd or Frank Rich. Which is to say, none.

[Vidalia]

Enron Execs have many more "smoking guns" that are coming to the surface in private negotiations that makes White insignificant at best.

The tip of the iceberg, Andrew Fastow, was in chains.

Nearly two dozen Enron execs continue to privately rat on everybody else and their dog ad nauseam in return for a life after Enron.

Hardcopy evidence being introduced into evidence includes drug profiteering for laundering to cover personal debts and losses, possible ties to major counterfeiting of millions worth of $100 bills, theft of multi-millions in securities from other corporations (again costing individual investors their personal monies), and murder to cover up the above activities.

Other activities on the upper floors of the Enron office suites include directives for personal threats to lower level execs who did not go along with the program(s) and actual murders of "problematic" individuals.

You must remember that Enron was international, and used monies and people like chessmen.

Many transactions and people may never be found...

[VMI70]

If I ran a newspaper, and this incident of gross negligence occurred, I would order the perps to write a retraction, the length of which was as many, or more if necessary, column inches as was devoted to the original story. I would also order that the retraction be placed in the same, or more prominent, physical area of the paper where the original story appeared. Apologies would be included in the retraction.
If that was done to my satisfaction, then I might think twice about firing the guy.

[jdontom]

This week, Salon.com editors apologized to readers: "After careful review, Salon’s editors have decided to take down from our Web site an article entitled ‘Tom White played key role in covering up Enron losses’ that we published on Aug. 29… [W]e have been unable to independently confirm the authenticity of an e-mail from former Enron executive and current Army Secretary Thomas White that was quoted in the article.”

This is very interesting that Salon.com stocks bolted from 2 cents a share to 1 cent a share. They are barely holding on. When they are finally gone don't worry another liberal mag will take their place..

Theirs a Ping list for anything on Salon I am on it but don't know how that Ping thang works. Is their a button to push?

[dark_lord]

Forging an email is quite simple. Spammers forge the "sending address" every day. To validate an email, the approach that is done has to be quite forensic.

The big question I have, is how did the freelance reporter who provided the story to Salon get the original email? Who provided it to him? What was the provenance of the email? How can he be sure that it was not a forgery? What is the basis for that assurance?

The news media is dumber than a pack of cockroaches when it comes to this kind of stuff. Note that the mainstream media didn't break the story. It went from
(a) freelance weasal, to
(b) a web based "journalism" site, to
(c) the New York Times.

This is how the liberal media smears someone. The NYT is too savvy to do this on their own. They won't report it until someone else "breaks" the story - then they reference that other reporter to give them cover.

This is also how false facts take on a life of their own. Bogus statistics get created by some group with an axe to grind, who publishes them. Someone else picks them up and references them. 10 years later the statistics are "common knowledge" - even though the 1st source made them up out of whole cloth.

[jdontom]

Just a side note: Salon.com stocks fell to an all time low this week selling for 1 cent a share, down from 2 cents. There is a Ping list for Salon articles, I am on it but do not know how that ping thang works.....