[okie01]

``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.''

Uh, isn't Jayson Blair following in the grand tradition established by Walter Duranty?

[aristeides]

Uh, isn't Jayson Blair following in the grand tradition established by Walter Duranty?

I believe the NYT has never returned Duranty's Pulitzer Prize. It may well be that they have never admitted that his career was one of systematic mendacity.

[tgslTakoma]

``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.''

I read the entire article, and the above is the one sentence that really stuck with me. Read it again...

``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.''

That's telling, IMO.

[Ironword]

Uh, isn't Jayson Blair following in the grand tradition established by Walter Duranty?

Don't forget the NYT's Matthew Jeffries.

It's nothing new at the NYT . . . every day is propaganda.

[pttttt]

Uh, isn't Jayson Blair following in the grand tradition established by Walter Duranty?

For those who were born too late to get this well-placed reference, Walter Duranty was a since-discredited comsymp apologist for Stalin who won a Pulitzer in 1932 for bogus coverage and whitewash of Communist-caused starvation in Ukraine. More at http://www.nationalreview.com/stuttaford/stuttaford.asp about how the NYT hadn't yet disowned him and at last reading was still taking credit for that Pulitzer.

It would make an interesting Freeper screen name...