[The Raven]

From Andrew Sullivan's blog:

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IT'S EVEN WORSE: I've just read through the seemingly endless litany of errors, fraud, plagiarism and lies from Jayson Blair. It strikes me that his offenses may be even worse than Stephen Glass's. The most striking thing to me was how obvious the plagiarism was, and how many times Blair's datelines were completely fabricated. Did no one use a quick Nexis search to check for plagiarism? Did any of the plagiarized complain? And how do you lose track of where your reporter actually is - not just once, but many, many times? This is surely far worse than anyone has hitherto realized: a web of deception that takes the Times almost 7,000 words to parse and correct. And the reckoning still may not be complete. I'd say it's the biggest blow to the credibility of newspaper journalism since the Janet Cooke affair. But will anyone apart from Blair be held responsible?

[MizSterious]

Great thread, one of those "suspicions confirmed" kind of things.

[SCHROLL]

Blair is but the tip of the iceberg at the NYT. Isn't Raines' direction to slant stories just as bad? If a tie can be made between Raines and Blair, there'd be a hell of a fireworks show at the Old Gray Lady.

[U S Army EOD]

Back when Vietnam was going hot and heavy, a lot of the news you saw "from the front" by big name news folks in the States were actually filmed by some Korean, Japanese, or Vietnamese camera man. The guy taking credit for the story usually never left the bar at the officers club.

Also these guys already had their minds made up what they were going to report. They would pass up 100's of stories that contradicted what they wanted you to hear and focus on the few stories that supported their polictical beliefs.

Our news media is ripe with this, they want to make the news instead of reporting it.