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The Old Grey Info-Slut... the NYT/Jayson Blair Affair
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| 05-13-03
| The Heavy Equipment Guy
Posted on 05/13/2003 1:13:34 AM PDT by backhoe
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...a guy in a full fledged clown outfit...I look across the way and the FOX reporter is looking puzzled at the two of us and I shout over, “He’s with me……..he wants to be an Times editor”
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05/15/2003 4:09:19 AM PDT
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backhoe
(The 2nd protects the 1st...)
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In a surreal moment that reminded one staffer of Shari Lewis' old TV show, Sulzberger produced a stuffed toy moose that he sometimes trots out as a symbol of open communication.
You could not invent stuff this weird...
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05/15/2003 12:24:56 PM PDT
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backhoe
(What part about "uninfringed" is so hard to understand? The 2nd guards the 1st...)
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In a surreal moment that reminded one staffer of Shari Lewis' old TV show, Sulzberger produced a stuffed toy moose that he sometimes trots out as a symbol of open communication.
You could not invent stuff this weird...
Check out these memos-
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05/15/2003 4:50:39 PM PDT
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backhoe
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05/16/2003 12:53:03 AM PDT
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backhoe
(Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
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05/16/2003 1:16:15 AM PDT
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backhoe
(Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
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...he's a dead man writing...
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05/16/2003 1:54:20 AM PDT
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backhoe
(Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
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Allen Myerson, an assistant business editor, took a dive out the paper's 11th floor Times Square office last August. Earlier in the year, financial reporter Agis Salpukas too a dive off a bridge into the Hudson River.
The full text of Duranty's 1933 article is here.
I heard Jay Leno say it's now called the New York Once Upon a Times.
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05/17/2003 12:13:06 AM PDT
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backhoe
(Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
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Yup, they downplayed the Holocaust and Hitler, and Duranty won a Pulitzer for his (mis)reporting of Stalin and Russia. And it continues today with the lovefest with Castro.
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05/17/2003 12:19:07 AM PDT
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backhoe
(Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
To: backhoe
BTT
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05/17/2003 12:22:18 AM PDT
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backhoe
(Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
To: nopardons
Thanks for the bump... I wonder if the Old Info-Whore has finally managed to discredit herself enough to matter...
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05/17/2003 12:36:34 AM PDT
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backhoe
(Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
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You're welcome and NO , she hasn't...not yet. OTOH, more will come out and then, THEN, maybe enough folks will finally " get it ".
To: nopardons
maybe enough folks will finally " get it "Let's hope so... I've been sensitive to the issue of media bias ever since that "Daisy" commercial was run against Barry Goldwater- it's been going on for a long, long time... but it used to be less blatant.
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05/17/2003 1:07:21 AM PDT
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backhoe
(Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
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No, really it hasn't been " less blatant ". From the beginnings of this nation, newspapers have been biased and the political writings, therein, have been vicious, mean, nasty, and vile. There have been periods of quiessence, but it always comes back.
Will Duranty and his pro-Stalin propaganda, in the N.Y. Times, was overt. So was the Time's support of Hitler and other vile people and regimes. There hatchet jobs on those they didn't " like " ( read REPUBLICANS ), has also been overt.
I have been reading the N.Y. Times since I was little. Their book review section ( the only part I still get & read ) has always been biased.
When I was little, there were both morning and evening papers in New York. I've watched the N.Y. Post pass through various permutations; as has the Daily News. Some papers. such as THE VILLAGE VOICE, have remained constant in their bias.
One reason, that many New Yorkers get the Times, is because it the ONLY paper that has upscale adds and the fullest " ARTS " section. This latest escapade WILL deal it a blow; just not a big enough one. Everyone knows that it's a lefty paper...now, they know that it also publishes made up stories as " fact ". It needs a few more hardy blows to really disgust those who still buy it.
FWIW, the New York Post's figures ( how many papers it sells )continues to grow expotentially ! :-)
To: nopardons
Now that you mention it, I see your point- I've seen copies of old papers & periodicals from long ago that were screamingly partisan... it seemed to be a matter of pride to take a clearly-defined position on issues.
I actually don't have a problem with that- when you know where a person stands, you can apply correction for biases.
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05/17/2003 1:42:45 AM PDT
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backhoe
(A nuke for every Kook ( NK, Iraq, Iran, Pak, India... )- what a Clinton "legacy...")
To: backhoe
As I have been doing, since I was in grade school, with the N.Y. Times. But, it doesn't really help and so, I stopped my subscrition, years ago.
But, sometimes the bias is " hidden " better than one supposes. Look at what Hearst managed to do with war and the movie industry.
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05/17/2003 5:14:33 PM PDT
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backhoe
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05/18/2003 1:36:24 PM PDT
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05/18/2003 3:56:29 PM PDT
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backhoe
(Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
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05/19/2003 1:44:46 AM PDT
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backhoe
(Diversity = Everyone looks different, yet thinks alike...)
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