Pinch Sulzberger Blames His Readers for Jayson Blair Scandal at New York Times

Massachussetts News ^ | April 27, 2004 | staff

[GeronL]

Pinch Sulzberger, owner of the New York Times, last week blamed the readers of the Times for the Jayson Blair scandal which rocked his newspaper last year and brought it þu and him þu to their knees.

Sulzberger made the charge against his readers while he was on a panel at the American Society of Newspaper Editors according to Editor and Publisher magazine, which reported the story this way:

¡°Sulzberger [said] the worst thing to come out of the Blair scandal was ¡­ readers who knew about the incorrect reporting did not complain¡­¡±

But Pinch, the readers may not have complained to you, but someone much more important did. And that was your editors.

Your paper reported last May that your inquiry ¡°establishes that various editors and reporters expressed misgivings about Mr. Blair¡¯s reporting skill, maturity and behavior during his five-year journey from raw intern to reporter on national news events.¡± It also reported that metropolitan editor Jonathan Landman sent an email to newsroom administrators in April 2002 that Blair wasn¡¯t competent and he had to go.

Don¡¯t you read your own paper? You were in charge of the investigation! And now you¡¯re blaming the readers?!?

Wait Pinch, there¡¯s more!

Blair was given a leave for personal reasons at one point and told to be more accurate when he came back. But when he came back, he was assigned to the prestigious national desk.

Pawlick Says New Scandal Will Bring Sulzberger Down

Pinch Sulzberger will be removed from office shortly, maybe within thirty days, says Attorney J. Edward Pawlick, who has written a book about a new scandal involving Sulzberger and the Times.

Pawlick, whose book is titled ¡°Libel by New York Times,¡± is talking about Pinch¡¯s abortive attempt to impose homosexual marriage upon Massachusetts.

The attorney says that last year, Sulzberger fired his two top editors at the Times, one of them an old friend, in an attempt to put the blame on someone else.

¡°This year,¡± said Pawlick, ¡°he¡¯s blaming the readers? He¡¯s ridiculous. Everyone knows that he was the person responsible for the tragedy of Jayson Blair, who was hired and setup for failure solely to make Sulzberger look like a tolerant, ¡®caring person,¡¯ who was trying to help those of other races. In actuality, he doesn¡¯t care about others and is focused only on saving his own skin and his own position as one of the most powerful people in the world.¡±

[GeronL]

Pinch this

[GeronL]

I hate those symbols they put in to make it imposible to cut and paste.

[GeronL]

Its the readers and not the editors who should have alerted Pinch to Blair.... bwahahaahaha

[backhoe]

From the GrooveYard of Lost Scandals:

-The Old Grey Info-Slut... the NYT/Jayson Blair Affair--

[GeronL]

I still cannot believe he would blame the readers... lol

[hershey]

Gee, usual Lib. line, reminds me of Carter blaming the US (Bush), for the world's ills. Uh, and Kerry, Fat boy Kennedy, Hitlery, Daschle, etc..

[tioga]

OK, Pinch (grown men are named "pinch"?) -- anyway get this........I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR PAPER PRINTING LIES........YOU ARE!

[goldstategop]

Its typical of liberals... they think other people are stupid and can't grasp their great thoughts. Its all our fault Jayson Blair betrayed the Grey Lady. To hear it from Pinch Sulzberger, its never his newspaper or its philosophy that hired an unqualified minority as a journalist and allowed him to print fiction as fact for years in its pages. Its one more sign of how the partisan media is fast losing its last shred of credibility in this country.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

But . . . but . . . my intentions were so good. Can't we all just get along? <:/sarcasm>

Just like a Democrat: "The buck never got here!"

It's the Republicans' fault that Craig Livingstone read their FBI files, too! You certainly can't blame Clinton for that!

But let something undesirable happen in Iraq and "Bush should have prevented it; he didn't plan well enough (but he started planning too soon, and listens to his advisors too much)."

[TomGuy]

Had readers complained about Jayson Blair, they would have been accused of being racist. Liberals operate that way. Jayson was a 'protected entity' safely tucked under the wings of upper management.

Readers have complained about the NYT left-leanings----to no avail. Liberals operate that way, too.

[leprechaun9]

"Pinch" must really be in a pinch when he must desperately point his finger at his customers. This shows how morally and intellectually dishonest this man is!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

...and brought it þu and him þu to their knees.

When I think of The New York Times and Pinch Sulzberger, I say P.U. too.

[mhking]

Pinch Sulzberger, owner of the New York Times, last week blamed the readers of the Times for the Jayson Blair scandal

Talk about arrogance! And he expects people to take the Times seriously?

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[Liz]

Pinch Sulzberger, owner of the New York Times, last week blamed the readers of the Times for the Jayson Blair scandal......

Liberal thinking in a nutshell......"it's not my fault."

These poeple are so disturbed. Pinch needs immediate medical care, and a good shrink.

[prairiebreeze]

Having a wee problem with the personal accountibility issue, eh Pinch?

Prairie

[Liz]

Had readers complained about Jayson Blair, they would have been accused of being racist.

You nailed it. Complaints would have been met with a barrage of "tolerant and compassionate" liberal breast-beating, as well as (gag) hate crime laws ready to pounce.

[OldFriend]

Well, this reader sent an email suggesting that the misinformation they were printing (later corrected) was a deliberate attempt to slant the news.

Got a letter back professing outrage that anyone would think the paper would deliberately print misinformation.

[freeangel]

Why would anyone expect more from the owner of a liberal rag. He's folowing the lib line when things go wrong--it's not my fault(after all, I only own it) It is the fault of the people paying the bills.

[jocon307]

"...grown men are named "pinch"?...

I don't think that's a "real" nick name, I don't think anyone would address him that way in real life. His father's nickname was Punch, and after the son took over folks started calling him "Pinch" in derision.

I don't think anyone thought much of this guy from the word go.

[Cboldt]

How does one go about firing the owner?