Newspaper Daze - Part 3

The Conning Tower ^ | 5/26/03 | Trentino

[Davis]

By now, three weeks into its epic wrestling match with the demons unleashed by Jayson Blair, one can almost feel sorry for the New York Times. But, when you think about how their chief editorial-side executives screwed up from beginning to end, any sympathetic feelings flee.

Publisher Prince Sulzberger, Executive Editor Howl Raines, and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd, had looked the other way when Jayson came aboard flying the banner of diversity but without a college transcript. They promoted him and gave him choice assignments despite an accumulation of shoddy work, unexplained absences, and they continued to do so even in the face of an urgent memo over a year ago by Metro editor Jonathan Landman, "We have got to stop Jayson from writing for the Times. Right now." When Jayson's plagiarism from a San Antonio newspaper couldn't be ignored or buried, it was time for the guys in charge to come clean about their own failure. Prince drags down about $110,000 per week in salary and bonuses, so you'd think he'd acknowledge some responsibility for minding the store.

Instead, ten days after Jayson's resignation we were treated to a mountain of minutely detailed corrections...more

[Timesink]

Schadenfreude

This is the New York Times Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.

[Izzy Dunne]

Why would anybody buy his alleged book?

[Grampa Dave]

There is an even better question.

Why would anyone want to buy a copy of the NY Slimes?

[hrhdave]

You shouldn't compare the NYTimes to an angelic concept that doesn exist--The Daily Utopian. Compare it with WaPO and Latimes. NYT is better than they are. It is infinitely better than USA Today which isn't even fit to be birdcage liner.

So, knock it and mock it and make it improve. First thing, Prince and Howl have got to go. Make them walk the plank.

[Grampa Dave]

I'm not comparing the Slimes to anything. If it stopped publishing tomorrow no one with a sense of decency would miss it.The Slimes has be lying for at least 7 decades to Americans and the world.

[Davis]

I saw cartoon today. Two men on a subway. Man holding National Enquirer looking over at man next to him reading the New York Times and asks, "How can you believe anything you read in that rag?" Funny!

[upchuck]

By now, three weeks into its epic wrestling match with the demons unleashed by Jayson Blair, one can almost feel sorry for the New York Times.

NO! I'm sorry, but there are no conditions under which I'm gonna feel sorry for the NY Slimes. This leftist piece of CRAP is finally, almost where it belongs.

[Grampa Dave]

If you can find the url for that cartoon please ping me.

What a great cartoon.

[lainde]

ping!

[Timesink]

You know you're pinging me to threads I've already pinged, right?