[mict42]

"Times", they are a changing?

[GOPJ]

How did this man keep his job? What did he put out that trumped integrity? What staff knew, when did they know it and who benefited from the lies or the liar...

Fill this story out, NYT. Corruption in the news media is just as important as corruption in government.

His former editor on the paper's metro desk, Jonathan Landman, had told Times bosses in April 2002 in an e-mail: "We have to stop Jayson from writing for the Times. Right now."

Blair took a personal leave, but was promoted to the national desk, where his deceptions continued.

[mict42]

This a good case of Black Jounalism.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Mainsteam media telling lies - I'm shocked I tells ya shocked!

[DainBramage]

Leave him alone. black youth all over lookup to him as evidence of success.

Just more white man holdin the black man down.(/sarcasm)(/sterotypical jive)

[T'wit]

The TIMES itself commits fraud every day by selecting news stories that conform to its political views and burying stories that reveal the corruption of the Left. I don't see what objection the TIMES can have if one of their reporters commits fraud.

[WaterDragon]

You have to wonder why Raines is coming down on this man. Can't just be because the NYTimes is caught out with fabricated stories. That's nothing new. Doesn't the NYTimes still brag about and treasure the something-or-other Prize Will Duranty wrote about the Stalin's USSR -- complete fabrications!

So, I'm wondering what's going on here.

[veronica]

Ha ha. If only we could catch Maureen Dowd in a similar situation. It's such fun watching The Times sink like a stone.

[fruitjuicyred]

Blair took a personal leave, but was promoted to the national desk, where his deceptions continued.

Clearly aspiring to run for the RAT nomination one day.

-mombonn, enjoying Mother's Day with her daughter.

Happy Day, all!

[Tall_Texan]

In an unprecedented move, the Times called upon readers to assist in the unmasking of Blair, printing an e-mail address, retrace@nytimes.com, for tips.

While the New York Times is in the mood of retracing and retracting lies and inaccuracies in their stories, perhaps our watchdogs can cite *other* instances where the New York Times had their facts wrong. Of course, they don't necessarily have to be from Mr. Blair (poor boy has been picked on enough, I mean he did nothing Clinton, Clinton, Gore and McAuliffe haven't done thousands of times and gotten away with). They can be *anyone* from the NYT. Even if you limited your search to just 1992 (Clinton campaign) and forward, we could come up with enough lies from the New York Times to fill a Sunday NYT cover to cover.

By all means, provide *extensive* documentation. Fill up their e-mail box.

Sure, they'll confess that they don't know what the Lynch family's property in West Virginia looks like, but will they admit that they have lied about Clinton cover ups and Bush bashing for the past decade? That they lied about campaign finance reform and corporate corruption? That they lied about global warming? That they lied about the war with Iraq?

Let's think "big picture" here. Let's tells the Times which lies they spread that really do bother us.

[mewzilla]

I'll bet their are some glaring omissions in the Times's mea culpa.

[shred]

I'm a little disturbed at the racial tone of the responses here. If this had been a white reporter, I doubt his skin color would have even been brought up. But because this guy happened to be black, this suddenly becomes about the evils of affirmative action.

Far more likely is that this guy was a terrific con artist, plain and simple.

I steadfastly oppose quotas and affirmative action. I think they're both profoundly un American and certainly unconstitutional.

The underlying ugliness of many of the posts on this thread depresses me. The conservative movement is far better than this.

[Celantro]

To: retrace@nytimes.com

From: Moi

I'd rather read these pure lies than your regularly published leftist propaganda in the guise of news.

[jporcus]

Where were the editors who are supposed to look over and check out what these journalists write? Yes, this journalist was wrong, but they are now crucifying him on their front page. He deserves to be fired, and to be shamed, but he is NOT the only one at fault. Let's see if they go UP the chain of command on this one. In addition to Who where his editors: Who hired him? What criteria did they use?

[McGavin999]

And what were the editors doing when this was going on? Obviously not their job. The NYT has more problems then a rogue reporter, it has a fundamental problem with management.

[MistrX]

Maybe he and Doris Kearns Goodwin can go off and write a book together.