Posted on 04/30/2005 2:57:48 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
Jayson Blair, the disgraced New York Times reporter implicated in a plagiarism scandal the paper called a “low point" in its 152-year history, has turned up with a first-person column in the spring issue of bp, a magazine chronicling bipolar disorder.
In it, Blair gives his account of being diagnosed as bipolar—a recovery that includes medication and speaking engagements—as well as his take on the May 11, 2003 “7,000-word above-the-fold, front page story (accompanied by a 6,400-word litany of corrections).” Blair writes: “As a team of Times reporters and researchers dug into my background pulling together loose threads for (the article), I was sitting in Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut following a suicide attempt only years earlier I would have thought unimaginable.”
Blair says the disorder, combined with “trying to accomplish my job while I was sick without letting anyone know (what) was wrong with me,” led to “the dangerous territory of mania—high risk behavior in the form of fabricating and plagiarizing stories.”
(Excerpt) Read more at foliomag.com ...
That first sentence says so much. The "paper" self anoints this as the "low point", and with such gravitas... yet via the mere shrugging of the shoulders and roll-of-the-eyes collective response-in-denial to the Duranty coverup of the Stalin genocide - and the insanity of having won a pulitzer for that lie - the real low point is conveniently glossed over.
If they ain't (or don't...) talkin' 'bout it, then it doesn't matter. Just like their 47-day-run of front page coverage on Abu Ghraib - terrorists-in-panties is an atrocity, a return to My Lai; beheadings like Richard Berg (may he RIP) not only are "not" atrocities, but deemed too disturbing to print/display. United States = bad; vermin-who-kill-innocents are really "minutemen" and therefore, "good". Life is so simple, eh?
(sarc/on) This birdcage liner is sooooo powerful that they can decide what is truth and what isn't important enough to merit acknowledgement -- Orwell would be proud.
I've known people who are bipolar. I've had friends who are bipolar.
Bipolar disorder does not make people lie.
Take one under educated liberal, throw in the gay life style with the drugs that go with the life style. Enable this whacked out individual to write lies and wet dreams that pose as news. Then allow this individual to do what he wants to for a year or so with his insane mutterings posing as real articles with no control over him, the end result is a whacked out lunatic lib liar who might be bi-polar.
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