Another Jayson Blair?

NRO ^ | 12/17/03 | Michelle Malkin

[William McKinley]

Lieutenant Commander Beidler, 32, on his way to Iraq in January, was walking with his family toward the end of Naval Station Pier 2 when the Times's Charlie LeDuff asked him for his general view of war protesters. Mr. Beidler recalls stating, "Protesters have a right to protest, and our job is to defend those rights. But in protesting, they shouldn't protest blindly; instead, they should provide reasonable solutions to the problem." The LeDuff version had Mr. Beidler criticizing Los Angeles protesters but turning his guns at a complacent United States: "It's war, Commander Beidler said, and the nation is fat. 'No one is screaming for battery-powered cars,' he added." The journalist then turned to Commander Beidler wife's Christal: "'I'm just numb,' she said as she patted down his collar. 'I'll cry myself to sleep, I'm sure.'"

Something always gets lost in the translation. An honest error, I am sure.

Exactly why was this guy not fired for basically committing fraud?

[thoughtomator]

Because the heat isn't on... yet.

[Wheee The People]

In response, a Times editor shrugged off Beidler's complaint...

The NY Times has been in a spider hole too long.

[martin_fierro]

Pingenfreude

[randog]

Let's hope Lieutenant Commander Beidler gets to tell his story to a national televised audience.

[martin_fierro]

LeDuff (l)

[tracer]

jumbled-eye-a bump

[paltz]

I felt good and I felt like, hey I'm smart enough. I can do this.

What a shock.

[martin_fierro]

Here's that JournalismJobs interview:

[The New York Times was] my first newspaper job. I was an intern for three months at the Alaska Fisherman's Journal. That was my first publication-type job. But the first thing I ever wrote that got published, my Russian friend in the Northeast got killed with alcohol. I just sort of wrote an obituary. The new class of Russian youth, after the fall of the wall, on the street corners selling pins and posters, running from the law. And I wrote that and I think I wrote it pretty well. I felt good and I felt like, hey I'm smart enough. I can do this.

[hosepipe]

" Pingenfreude "....LOL

[Tacis]

I'm sorry, but this is racial profiling. Two out of two minority employees accused of plagiarism? Coincidence? Can't be! They are looking to fire minorities. The NYT is in deeeep trouble if they accuse any other minority of plagiarism. The next one or two or five caught HAVE to be white. So all you black and minority plagiarists still on the payroll are home free. Go copy!!!

[Viking2002]

The Times has sealed it's fate as the National Enquirer of big-city newspapers.

[martin_fierro]

Here's my other favorite:

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[arasina]

Exactly why was this guy not fired for basically committing fraud?

Because The New York Times is sitting on its LeDuff, maybe?

[lelio]

I felt good and I felt like, hey I'm smart enough. I can do this.

An interesting American Psychological Association paper on that very subject entitled
Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments

[Go Gordon]

"But the first thing I ever wrote that got published, my Russian friend in the Northeast got killed with alcohol. "

This guy still can't write a complete and proper sentence. Some rising start....

[CFC__VRWC]

Let's hope Lieutenant Commander Beidler gets to tell his story to a national televised audience.

Problem is, unless the LTC or his wife recorded the interview, it'll come down to a "he said - she said", and the Slimes will doubtless stick with the reporter. It'll take a number of people coming forward with allegations of quote-manufacturing before the Slimes even begins to feel any heat.

[Republicus2001]

he still can't communicate well

[CyberAnt]

Is it just me or did Howell Raines have a lot of young men as "pets". I'm not liking what I'm thinking about this.