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Remember Jayson Blair? Now, another name will go down in infamy at the New York Times. Lynette Holloway, another affirmative- action promotion at the New York Times, has resigned in the wake of the paper running its second-longest correction in history. That 2,175-word correction ran back on July 14. Holloway’s by-line has not appeared since. Now she’s gone. The Times didn’t want to draw any more attention to this scandal, and her resignation was disclosed by a competitor, Keith J. Kelly of the New York Post. He reported that Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis said they had reached "an amicable settlement."

<p>September 24, 2003 -- Lynette Holloway, the embattled New York Times reporter whose work this summer prompted the second-longest correction in the history of the paper, has finally resigned.</p> <p>Holloway was another error-prone reporter who seemed to be given new responsibilities in the era of Howell "Flood the Zone" Raines.</p>

On July 14, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger named a new executive editor, Bill Keller; made a point of insulting Keller’s predecessor, Howell Raines, whom Sulzberger had rewarded for his loyal service, by pushing out the door; and found himself mired in yet another affirmative action scandal. Don’t it just break your heart?! In introducing Times veteran Keller in his new capacity, Sulzberger went out of his way to take a potshot at Raines, who had been on the Charlie Rose Show only three days earlier, where he’d spoken of the Times suffering from a “lethargic culture of complacency.”...

<p>Say what you want about the New York Times, but it still makes more news than any other paper in the U.S. By this, I don't mean in the sense of printing the news, as other papers do, but rather in the sense of news about the Times itself. Consider these recent items that made national news.</p>

<p>July 15, 2003 -- On the day it named a new top editor, The New York Times launched yet another investigation of the performance of one of its reporters.</p> <p>This time the reporter under the microscope is Lynette Holloway, a media writer whose recent story on the music business was the subject of a 2,100 word correction in The Times yesterday.</p>

UPDATE: 2,100 WORD CORRECTION: NOT AGAIN: NEW YORK TIMES PREPARES TO EXPLAIN ERRONEOUS STORY; PAPER CLAIMED MUSIC CHIEF DEFAULTED, LOST CONTROL OF LABEL... XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JULY 13, 2003 17:09:28 ET XXXXX 2,100 WORD CORRECTION: NOT AGAIN: NEW YORK TIMES PREPARES TO EXPLAIN ERRONEOUS STORY; PAPER CLAIMED MUSIC CHIEF DEFAULTED, LOST CONTROL OF LABEL It's "We're Sorry!" time at the NEW YORK TIMES -- again -- on Monday, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. The Business Desk is preparing to retract a story which claimed TVT Records founder and president Steven Gottlieb "lost control of his company" after...