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[tdadams]

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE MAY 13, 2003 19:48:58 ET XXXXX

EMERGENCY MEETING CALLED AT OLD GRAY LADY; NY TIMES NEWSROOM IN CRISIS

[DRUDGE OBTAINED THIS INTERNAL E-MAIL TO NY TIMES STAFF]

Howell, Gerald and Arthur request that you join your newsroom colleagues at an open forum at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, to discuss the Jayson Blair matter and anything else you might have on your mind. The meeting will be held at the Loew's Astor Theater, the moviehouse just behind The Times on 44th Street at Broadway, across from Carmine's. Doors open at 2:15 p.m.

Please be sure to bring your Times i.d. card. No one will be admitted to the theater without their Times i.d.

You will be able to ask questions from the floor, or write them on cards that will be distributed at the door. In addition, we have set up an email address -- forum@nytimes.com -- where you can send questions, either in advance of the session or afterward.

On Wednesday morning, we will send out a separate email advising correspondents and bureaus outside New York how they may dial into the forum and listen to the session. Unfortunately, because of the short time available to set up the forum, people listening from a remote location will not be able to ask live questions. You may, however, avail yourself of the email address above. If you get questions to us before 2 p.m. EDT tomorrow [May 14], we will put them into the hopper. Otherwise, they will be answered later.

[tdadams]

I wonder too if this is going to turn into a criminal investigation at some point.

Wonder no more.

New York Times: Ex-reporter faces fraud inquiry

[princess leah]

Funny, isnt't it, how CNN's Jordon gets caught withholding information on Iraqi prisons, the war ratings go sky high for FOX,CBS blunders badly over putting CLinton/Dole on for a bland/boring sound off and now the NY Times finally gets caught in the lies we've known they print for years...Could it be that truth and justice are permeating from "THE TOP DOWN" since the BUsh administration took over?

[Enterprise]

Thank's for the update. It would seem that if people who tout bad stocks for personal gain should be punished, then reporters who submit false reporting for personal gain should also be punished.

[kevao]

Dear Arthur,

I rely solely on the New York Times for my news. In light of the recent discovery that your reporters have been fabricating news, could you please tell me: Did the U.S. really go to war in Iraq as I read in the NYT?

Regards,

[freedomlover]

Still 1052 times better than any other daily that I've read in America.

That's not saying much. Every day cow sh!t is left out in the sun it smells "better" than other fresher pies in the yard. But none of it is pretty.

[Cvengr]

Perhaps what speaks more to the issue is the position of NYTimes management ,...that they wouldn't accept a resignation letter from the fraudulant reporter even if tendered.

Reads as though they are more concerned with legal liabilities than ethics, yet it would appear to me that such a refusal is tantamount to self-admission of guilt in their promotion of fraud on their reading public.

How could anybody read the NYTimes today or future without accepting they are reading a publication which fully intends to deceive?

[Cvengr]

When will liberals get politically saavy and realize the NYTimes is a sophisticated lampoon of the National Enquirer.

You don't get that many writers with high IQs contributing to a fraudulant effort unless an obvious farce,....or do we?