[summer]

[JulieRNR21]

Jay Leno remarked recently that the NY Times changed it's motto from "All the news that's fit to print' to 'We have to fill up these pages with something.'

[WorkingClassFilth]

Perhaps some FReeper can correct me here...

I believe there was a Black woman writing for the NYT within the last 20 years or so, that wrote an award winning (Pulitzer?) series of articles on the plight of an eight year old heroin addict.

Turned out to be totally bogus and made big news at the time. Anyone remember this?

[summer]

NY Post Columnists re Jayson Blair and The NYT:

Steve Cuozzo: Calcified Minds

From above link: "...The guy made stuff up on a regular basis; that he did so was widely known among Times staff and even among top editors. Yet with each new atrocity he was given more, not less, responsibility and assigned to cover stories of ever-greater national importance.

Blair was the elephant in the newsroom, like the family alcoholic whose boozing and brawling no one has the guts to interrupt. Even readers willing to give the Times the benefit of every doubt are going to ask why a newspaper so dysfunctional - so aloof from basic regard for truth - should be taken seriously. "

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William Raspberry: Scapegoating Diversity

From above link: "...Was I hired because I was black? Promoted because I was black? Who knows? What I do know is that scores of people, black, white, Asian and Hispanic, have come and gone over the years I've been at the Post - and that not all have gone willingly.

Oh, one more thing I've been around long enough to have seen before: the expert schmoozer, the colleague who uses some combination of charm, wit and ambition to worm his way into the affection of his seniors. I don't disparage the practice - indeed I recommend it to those capable of bringing it off. Isn't it obvious that it helps your career if the boss likes you? Or if your boss' boss is seen laughing and chatting with you?

Blair, by all accounts, was a first-rate schmoozer, and I don't doubt that it helped keep him afloat. It wouldn't be necessary to say any of this if the miscreant were white.

But Blair is black, and for too many of my colleagues that fact trumps everything else. If his credentials weren't checked, if he was promoted beyond his level of competency, if he ended up lying and stealing to support the image he worked to sell, and if his bosses believed the lies longer than they should have - don't you see?

It's because of affirmative action. "

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[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

And this is the newspaper that Dan Rather had the audacity to tell Bill O'Reilly was "middle of the road"!!! Middle of the road to hell!

[Libloather]

Readers recall NYT's support of Hitler and Stalin...

I've heard that Henry Ford was against taking out Hitler.

Blixey Chicks philosophy...

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

NY Times = Useful idiot(s)

Useful idiots = "believers" who do not understand the truth

NY Times = "believers" who do not understand the truth

[nutmeg]

ping!

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[SkyPilot]

Great find summer.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Score another one for the Pinnochio Times.

[backhoe]

Speaking of the Times?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/910423/posts
The Old Grey Info-Slut... the NYT/Jayson Blair Affair
various FR links | 05-13-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[aristeides]

The NY Times did downplay the Holocaust. But it did not support Hitler.

[VOA]

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[Timesink]

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