[mountaineer]

"I was tired of listening to the other reporters joke about victims like the five children who were raped by a man in the Bronx," he writes, "or how black-on-black violence was just making the city safer for everyone."

I would bet money that no other NYT reporter made such comments, especially about the children.

[Timesink]

I would bet money that no other NYT reporter made such comments, especially about the children.

You're absolutely right; this assh*le is lying through his teeth. When I worked at ABC and CNN, anyone who made comments like that in the newsroom would have, at the very LEAST, been hauled off for "sensitivity training." But more importantly, that's just not the way people that work in New York newsrooms think. That sort of crap is completely abhorrent to them.

There is a lot of mordid, tasteless humor in newsrooms - plane crash jokes, shuttle jokes, etc. But jokes about child rape and race? Not a chance in hell.

[Timesink]

mordid = morbid, of course.