Ex (NYT) reporter Jayson Blair now working as life coach (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Yahoo News ^ | August 20, 2009 | Matthew Barakat

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Jayson Blair knows his new profession — life coach — smacks some people in the face like a bad punchline.

"People say, 'Wait a minute. You're a life coach?' That makes no sense,'" says Blair, the ex-journalist best known for foisting plagiarism and fabrications into the pages of The New York Times. "Then they think about my life experiences and what I've been through and they say 'Wait a minute. It does make sense.'"

Blair, 33, resigned from the Times in 2003, leaving a journalistic scandal in his wake. The resulting furor led the paper's top two newsroom executives to resign. Blair wrote a book, then mostly disappeared from view.

For the past two years, he has been quietly working as a certified life coach for one of the most respected mental health practices in northern Virginia.

"He can relate to patients just beautifully," said Michael Oberschneider, the psychologist who hired Blair and urged him to become a life coach. "Sometimes you just meet people in life who have these electric personalities. Well, Jayson is now using his talents for good."

Oberschneider, director of Ashburn Psychological Services, took an interest in Blair after seeing him lead a support group for people with bipolar disorder that Blair founded in his hometown of Centreville after being diagnosed himself.

Oberschneider said he took a long, hard look at Blair before hiring him, in large part because of his past, which included substance abuse. But he was impressed at the rapport Blair had established with members of the support group.

"Very few people can go through what he did and come back," Oberschneider said. "He really is a success story."

Blair says his empathy for his clients is his biggest asset.

"They know I've been in their shoes," he said.

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125070683007343783.html
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http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/08/whats-keeping-news-organizations-from-trying-the-low-profit-model/
What’s keeping news organizations from trying the “low-profit” model?

[Milhous]

In the first part of his essay, Mutter, perhaps unintentionally, reveals the primary pathogen that is killing journalism.

Nearly two-thirds of the way into the year, however, there has been far more talk than action.

I call this pathogen Conservatism_IS_Compassion's Syndrome.

Conservatism_IS_Compassion's Syndrome

Conservatism_IS_Compassion's Syndrome (CiCS) (also known as "All talk, no walk") is a very common, journalistic disorder characterized by the inability to do anything other than talk.

Conservatism_IS_Compassion's Syndrome more closely resembles idle chatter than any other social pathogen. For this reason, Conservatism_IS_Compassion' Syndrome is often referred to as a talk is cheap syndrome.

History

Conservatism_IS_Compassion's syndrome is named after Conservatism_IS_Compassion, a FReeper, who, as a journalism critic, described the syndrome as part of his Why Broadcast Journalism is Unnecessary and Illegitimate thread in 2001.

The interest of journalism is to interest and impress the public. But journalism doesn't do things, it only talks. Therefore journalism exists to promote talk above action. And the easiest way to do that is to second guess the people who do do things.

[Cicero]

Michael Oberschneider, the psychologist who hired Blair

If he's bipolar like Jason, what does he call himself when he's down? Unterschneider?

[Ann Archy]

Life coaches are for people who have no Christ in their lives.

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http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4800
Build That Pay Wall High

[Interesting Times]

I am always amazed how these twisted liberals talk about what “they’ve” been thru instead of what they’ve put other’s thru. Always so self centered.

Check. For many, other people are just shadowy images flitting around the edges of their sociopathic lives.

[Barb4Bush]

That’s a good George moment. My personal favorite is when he got in a fight at a funeral for double dipping a chip.

[Milhous]

Here we go again. [Milhous adopts a ritual tone.] I'm Paul Farhi, Washington Post reporter.

... the newspaper industry just might be able to save itself by taking a bold step...backward. ... charging $345 a year for unlimited access to the paper's Web site. ... "We want to drive people to the print version of the paper," ... "That's our goal." ... distraction ... high hopes ... counterintuitive ... loony ... too many Web sites ... wobbly ... unsustainable ... bloodbath ... nightmares ... crippled ... Depressing ... collapse ... ravages ... broken ... ailing ...

Blah, blah, - creep, crawl, creep. You'd think a literary Luddite making his deathbed confession whould have the grace to keep it brief, wouldn't you? But not our Farhi, oh no.

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“Oilman H.L. Hunt was known for his eccentricities. At age 83, he demonstrated his “creeping” exercises, which he’d do for two or three minutes several times a day.”

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/021008dnmethillmain.3a7d3fd.html

[Milhous]

George. Elaine, bald men with no jobs and no money don't approach strange women.

Reminds me of my own favorite.

George: You fixed me up with a bald woman.

Kramer flinches.

Kramer: Bald?

George: Yeah, that's right.

Elaine: Do you see the irony here? You're rejecting somebody because they're bald.

George: So?

Elaine: (puts her hands up to her mouth) You're bald!

IMHO a lot of sexual tension exists between George and Elaine. LOL. My wife thinks I'm nuts because both her and her sister hate George. After a chance encounter at a bar my nephew regards Jason Alexander as a megalomaniac.

[Milhous]

Thanks for the story. Back in the day my clientele included a coal company partially owned by one of the Hunt brothers. One day, while inspecting a mine incognito, Hunt got an earful from a miner about #%^&%^@#$ management. LOL.

[Barb4Bush]

I’m not too surprised to hear that about Jason Alexander. I doubt if he could play George so well if he weren’t somewhat obnoxious himself. I just love the George character, though. He makes me laugh harder than anyone on that show.

[NativeNewYorker]

...and journalistic fraud Edmund Andrews gives Bernanke a BJ in the Gay Lady of 8th Ave. today.

When being a sociopathic narcissist isn't a job killer, this is what you get...

[Slings and Arrows]

[a fool in paradise]

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The best part of the whole story was when they were in the big meeting and Pinch throws a stuffed toy moose out on the table.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0708/Sulzberger_flipflops_on_stuffed_moose.html

In an infamous incident, Mr. Sulzberger showed up at a company crisis meeting holding a toy stuffed moose. It was a gimmick meant to symbolize things that people were afraid to say, but nobody was in the mood for goofy shtick.