DIVERSITY LUNACY AT NY TIMES: Paper kept black reporter - even after 50 corrections.

washington post ^ | May 2, 03 | Howard K

[churchillbuff]

Raines said Blair's story last Saturday "incorporated passages from another newspaper's coverage of the family, in Los Fresnos, Tex., and we have been unable to determine what original reporting he did to produce it."

SNIP Express-News Editor Robert Rivard said ...he would "be embarrassed to have my byline" on the story if he were Blair, sent the Times a letter of complaint.

[churchillbuff]

Blair is black, as the Wash Post picture of him shows. The fact that he was kept on at the Times even after the paper had "run 50 corrections on his stories" shows how maniacal the major newspapers have become in pursuing "DIVERSITY" even at the expense of standards. If a white male reporter had forced the paper to issue 50 corrections, ... well he would have been gone after FIVE CORRECTIONS, is my bet.

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[Pan_Yans Wife]

What evidence do you have that he was retained at the paper, due to his race?

[Destro]

Since the NYSlimes is a private concern--what business is it of yours who they employ? Private enterprise should be just that.

[churchillbuff]

What evidence do you have that he was retained at the paper, due to his race?

I'm asking the question. Would they have retained someone with 50 corrections who was white male?

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

reporter resigns

[Poohbah]

Depends on how reliably he spouted the party line.

[conservativeinbflo.]

did he resign, or was it a forced resignation (to give him the option to get out before the humiliation of being fired)? he's just a plagarist, and should be blackballed in the news journalism community.

[aristeides]

Read the book Coloring the News, partly about this phenomenon.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I still don't get your point. The NY Times is a lousy paper, but they can employ whomever they like. And life isn't fair. I don't know how you can claim they kept him just because of his race. Perhaps they kept him, because he wrote articles that they wanted to appear in their paper.

[Destro]

I thought we conservatives were all for private sector businesses hiring whoever they felt like hiring and firing for whatever legal reasons.

We mind our business and let the market decide. So the point of this post makes no sense from the right side of things.

[swheats]

Affirmative action at it's best.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I agree.

[jriemer]

What evidence do you have that he was retained at the paper, due to his race?

I'm asking the question. Would they have retained someone with 50 corrections who was white male?

I think that your average liberals can chalk up at least +50 corrections without breaking a sweat. His mistake is not his race but making a big oopsie during wartime when everyone's scouring the news for their favorite home town soldier.

[churchillbuff]

I don't know how you can claim they kept him just because of his race.

I didn't CLAIM that, I raised the question. Do YOU believe the NY Times ordinarily would allow a reporter to continue, if he or she had required the paper to print 50 corrections?

[churchillbuff]

chalk up at least +50 corrections

Not when they have to be printed as corrections - - - embarassing the newspaper.

[quark]

Affirmative action is, as Pres. GWB said, "the soft bigotry of low expectations." At this point in history, it's doing more to set back the advancement of minorities than overt racism.

[twigs]

The problem is that it really doesn't matter. It is an uncomfortable fact that some, not all, minorities will bring a suit on employers if they are terminated or any thing at all. Race is one of the few federally protected aspects of employment. When someone is let go, the first thing many of them will try to do is see if they can sue their employer. Race, as does gender and age, among some other categores, gives them a handle.

I do not know the facts of this case other than what we have read. But employers, or anyone in any supervisory capacity, will bend over backwards to accommodate any minority to try and prevent a lawsuit.

[blanknoone]

While that is true, that is not what the Slimes espouses. The story is their hypocrisy.

[SauronOfMordor]

Since the NYSlimes is a private concern--what business is it of yours who they employ? Private enterprise should be just that.

Tell that to the EEOC, see how far it gets you.

To the extent that decisions on hiring and retaining personnel by private businesses is affected by government mandates and quotas, then the results of those government policies become a proper subject for political discussion