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[Tall_Texan]

Is Jayson Blair the bastard child of Janet Cooke? The Washington Post got stung 20 years ago by a features writer who won a Pulitzer Prize due to a story about a fictitious 8-year-old boy on crack. This must be that child...

Blair has nothing to worry about professionally. I'm told CNN is looking for a new Baghdad Bureau Chief.

[Grampa Dave]

If the NY Slimes fired every reporter who lied, pushed the DNC mantras in place of news and just out right fraud like their top maggots do, there would be nobody left at the Slimes.

[Tall_Texan]

The New York Times admits they've lied about the truth.

CNN admits they lied to keep access to the Iraqi government.

The Washington Post admits they lied about fictitious crackheads.

CBS and ABC have former reporters detailing bias (to the point of outright deception) in their newsrooms.

NBC News fakes blowing up trucks and poisoning deli food to invent their own "news".

Isn't it about time there was a Class Action suit against "Big Media" for fraud?

If only the government would go after "Big Media" the way they went after "Big Tobacco". Imagine the spoils they could seize.

[arthurus]

Sure have been a lot of theese over the last few years.Plus the Eason Jordans who are proud of it.

[BossLady]

This proves the NYT does not have a fact checker in their midst. If so, this idiot would not have had so much fun duping everyone.

Also, the fact that the NYT did not suspect anything after no expense reports were filed for four months is pretty shady. Maybe the NYT knew more than they are letting on.....

[freedomlover]

The widespread fabrication and plagiarism represent a profound betrayal of trust and a low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper.

Uuuuuhh, to have a low point you have to have subsequent improvement.

[John Lenin]

Say it isn't so , what a bunch of Clymers.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Mr. Blair must be confused and hurt. After all, he was just following company policy, immitating his peers.

One could wonder if the NY Times editor is using Blair as a scapegoat to distract us from the NYT's own recent record of daily deceitful, anti-war coverage. Regularly using Baghdad Bob as a source was unwise. Raines got caught on the wrong side of the war. His anti-American, anti-Bush campaign failed. He bashes Blair. Not a very manly Clymer, is he?

[gg188]

For each one that is caught, how many are getting away with it? 100?

This guy is probably p.o.'d....He's thinking I got canned while Doris Kearns Goodwin is bigger than ever.

Liberals admire skilful lying. Look at how they love Clinton. They just don't like those who bungle it and get busted.

[Beck_isright]

It's the evil GOP's fault. If they had not instituted a tax cut and had added funding for minority journalist education in the nation's schools, this never would have happened.

I look for that spin any second now.

[Crawdad]

Mike Barnicle must be loving this.

[RWG]

Blair, who is black, came to the Times as part of an internship program designed to help the paper attract more minority reporters...affirmative action is a liar.

[cgbg]

There was no inkling, Mr. Raines said, that the newspaper was dealing with ``a pathological pattern of misrepresentation, fabricating and deceiving.´´

Mr. Raines needs to get out more.

In flyover country everybody knows that is what the Old Gray Whore is about every day!

[nickcarraway]

"There has never been a systematic effort to lie and cheat as a reporter at The New York Times comparable to what Jayson Blair seems to have done."

This guy never heard of Walter Duranty?

[Enough is ENOUGH]

Cause: PC driven media hiring practices.

Prognosis: Much more of the same.