http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/jaysonblair/ en-us Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:56:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379850/posts The historic campus of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., has offered instruction in journalism for well over a century — but probably never quite like this. On Friday, the twice-yearly Washington and Lee Journalism Ethics Institute will hear from its latest keynote speaker: Jayson Blair, the former New York Times reporter who triggered the greatest scandal in the newspaper's history. "Getting Jayson Blair obviously was a departure," says Edward Wasserman, the Knight professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee. Indeed. The keynote address is typically reserved for people like Lowell Bergman or Toni Locy, journalists who withstood... NPR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379850/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:56:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372177/posts Jayson Blair, who was at the center of a major journalism scandal as a New York Times reporter in 2003, will be the featured speaker at Washington and Lee University’s 48th Journalism Ethics Institute on Friday, Nov. 6. The title of Blair’s talk is “Lessons Learned.” The public is invited to the presentation at 5:30 p.m. in Stackhouse Theater, Elrod Commons. Blair resigned from the Times after an investigation found that he had plagiarized and fabricated major portions of stories that he had written during four years with the Times. Some of the stories that he covered in this manner... Rockbridge Weekly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372177/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:31:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320288/posts Jayson Blair knows his new profession — life coach — smacks some people in the face like a bad punchline. "People say, 'Wait a minute. You're a life coach?' That makes no sense,'" says Blair, the ex-journalist best known for foisting plagiarism and fabrications into the pages of The New York Times. "Then they think about my life experiences and what I've been through and they say 'Wait a minute. It does make sense.'" Blair, 33, resigned from the Times in 2003, leaving a journalistic scandal in his wake. The resulting furor led the paper's top two newsroom executives to... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320288/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:36:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152943/posts The New York Times was forced to apologise on Monday after it published a fake letter, purportedly from the mayor of Paris, criticising Caroline Kennedy's bid for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat as "not very democratic". "What title has Ms Kennedy to pretend to Hillary Clinton's seat?" the letter in Monday's edition of the newspaper said. "We French can only see a dynastic move of the vanishing Kennedy clan in the very country of the Bill of Rights. It is both surprising and appalling." In an note from the editor posted Monday on its website, the newspaper said the letter signed... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152943/posts#comment Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:27:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751286/posts After a humiliating plagiarism scandal that rocked the New York Times [NYT], Jayson Blair is quietly resurrecting his journalism career by writing about the very subject he says brought him down: Bipolar disorder. Blair, 30, has been lending his expertise to 3-year-old bp (bipolar) magazine. He wrote a first-person piece about bipolar disorder and the role it played in his downfall that bp magazine ran last year. Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751286/posts#comment Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:51:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645153/posts Wednesday, Jun 07 Rick Kaplan Resigns: "He Has Led MSNBC Through A Period Of Impressive Growth" "I want to thank Rick for his service to MSNBC," NBC News president Steve Capus said in a message to MSNBC employees at 4pm. "Over the last two and a half years, Rick has been a tireless champion for the network and all the hard work you do each and every day. He has led MSNBC through a period of impressive growth especially in primetime. You, the staff at MSNBC, are enormously dedicated and have built a rock-solid foundation for our future growth. MSNBC... TVNewser http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645153/posts#comment Wed, 7 Jun 2006 20:56:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635149/posts Leslie Cauley, the USA Today reporter who last week “broke” the news that three major U.S. telecommunications companies were assisting the National Security Agency in building a database to more easily track any communications by potential terrorists, is listed as a donor to former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt... A search found a listing for "writer and journalist" Leslie Cauley, indicating she gave $2,000 to Gephardt on June 30, 2003, when Gephardt was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. And that seems not to be her only tie to Democratic politics ... Cauley's link to a Democratic campaign seems likely... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635149/posts#comment Fri, 19 May 2006 20:18:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622360/posts Facing shareholder dissent and getting flak for bloated executive pay deals, The New York Times is frantically searching for crisis p.r. experts as the company gears up for a public battle over the future of the newspaper giant. Chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. and other top management have been criticized for putting off the concerns of Morgan Stanley portfolio manager Hassan Elmasry and for a share price that's plummeted 50 percent since 2002. Soon after Morgan's attack last week on The Times, the publisher's spokeswoman, Catherine Mathis, was phoning Knight Ridder spokesman Polk Laffoon seeking advice, sources familiar with the... NY POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622360/posts#comment Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:11:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614733/posts Ex-New York Times Editor Writes On Getting Fired In Memoir POSTED: 7:21 pm EDT April 13, 2006 UPDATED: 7:49 pm EDT April 13, 2006 NEW YORK -- Howell Raines, the former executive editor of The New York Times, warns at the beginning of his new memoir that the book is about sport fishing and the "unpredictability of luck," not the episode that led to his firing: the Jayson Blair scandal. Blair was the young Times reporter revealed in 2003 to have fabricated or plagiarized parts of several articles. Raines lost his job over the incident, in part because the paper... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614733/posts#comment Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:39:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1592220/posts Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. apparently was given quite a chilly reception in his annual state-of-the-Times address..... Newspaper Guild members have already had to give up their raises for the year to rescue their embattled healthcare coverage, and 500 employees are losing their jobs. Floyd Norris, a business columnist, was said.... to be particularly intense in grilling Sulzberger on why (Pinch) would not give back his hefty million-dollar bonus this year to save jobs. "He kept ducking [the question]," ......"It was lame, lame, lame." NY POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1592220/posts#comment Wed, 8 Mar 2006 11:24:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1552049/posts Media: The New York Times is under fire from the left and right over the handling of its wiretapping story. But that's just the latest in a pattern of embarrassing mistakes and misdeeds by the "paper of record." It's been all the blues that's fit to print for The New York Times reporters, editors and brass lately. The memory of the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal was just fading when veteran Washington reporter Judith Miller was jailed for 85 days for protecting a source — then promptly shown the door amid suggestions of receiving more than leaks from her contacts. It... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1552049/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jan 2006 01:35:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549784/posts Of all the stories leading America’s annual greatest-hits list, the one that subsumes the rest is the evolution of information in the Age of Blogging. Not since the birth of the printing press have our lives been so dramatically affected by the way we create and consume information. What is wonderful and miraculous about the Internet needs little elaboration. We all marvel at the ease with which we can access information, whether reading government documents previously available only to a few, or tracking down old friends and new enemies. It is this latter – our new enemies – that interests... Columbus Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549784/posts#comment Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:38:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1515780/posts Life is Never Easy, Even When You're Doing Well Posted: 10/28/2005 9:37:00 AM by Donald J. TrumpChairman, Trump University I talked about this earlier in the week on my daily radio show, but I have more to say. Someone just wrote a book about me. It's the biggest pile of garbage I've ever seen, written by a highly questionable and, some people say, disgraced reporter named Tim O'Brien. I looked up O'Brien on the Internet and found stories comparing him to Jayson Blair. Blair was The New York Times' infamous reporter, who was fired in shame after he was found... The Trump Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1515780/posts#comment Fri, 4 Nov 2005 19:21:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1484167/posts The New York Times, which had been operating an all-free Web site, nytimes.com, will begin charging a fee for access to its major columnists under a new program called Times Select. Starting Sept. 19, the New York Times will charge $49.95 a year for online users to access 22 columnists including Tom Friedman, David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Bob Herbert, Nicholas Kristof and Frank Rich. -snip- Cybergossip Matt Drudge is threatening to boot the Times columnists. "I will yank the Times scribes if I can't find other outlets that are planning to carry them," threatened Drudge. "The Internet is... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1484167/posts#comment Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:16:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1458336/posts Thanks to a virtual blackout by his fellow editors elsewhere in the media, odds are good that you haven’t heard or read that Executive Editor Bill Keller of The New York Times recently capitulated in the debate over bias in America’s newspaper of record. Keller’s capitulation came in a lengthy memo he distributed in the Times’ newsroom in May as a response to an updating of a massive report by a committee appointed in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal to recommend measures to restore the gray lady’s credibility. In a section of the memo headed “The News/Opinion Divide,”... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1458336/posts#comment Sat, 6 Aug 2005 21:11:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1444951/posts New York Times Running Out?_____________________ NOTE: Most, and perhaps all, NY Times links require registration._____________________ Nadagate seems to have played out, and barring a shock I don't anticipate, has resulted in a big fat nothing. What is Nadagate? It's the name given by a clever writer to the non-scandal about which I refuse to blog in detail. Its main players, whose full names I refuse to type, have the initials KR, JW, VP, JM, and MC. For the blessed among you who have somehow managed not to hear of it, today's Manchester Union Leader's seven-paragraph editorial has all you'll ever... BizzyBlog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1444951/posts#comment Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:10:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1431969/posts A longtime columnist of the Sacramento Bee who resigned amid controversy last month may have invented the existence of 43 people she wrote about over several years, an internal investigation found. The paper announced yesterday it had completed a probe into Diana Griego Erwin's writing, stating: "We have been unable to verify the existence of 43 people she named in her columns. This doesn't prove these people don't exist, but despite extensive research we have been unable to find them." Bee Executive Editor Rick Rodriguez wrote that recent tightening in editorial standards at the paper led to questions about the... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1431969/posts#comment Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:01:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404977/posts SAF CALLS FOR ‘WAITING PERIODS’ ON PRESS FOLLOWING FATAL NEWSWEEK DEBACLE For Immediate Release: 5/16/2005 BELLEVUE, WA – More than 115 dead or injured, and now a lame “apology” from Newsweek; maybe it is time for the press to accept waiting periods before exercising its First Amendment rights in the same way the press has backed waiting periods on law-abiding Americans before exercising their Second Amendment rights. That’s the observation from the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) now that Newsweek has acknowledged its report about the desecration of the Koran by soldiers at Guantanamo Bay was bogus. “I wonder if Newsweek,... Second Amendment Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404977/posts#comment Tue, 17 May 2005 17:54:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1394161/posts Jayson Blair, the disgraced New York Times reporter implicated in a plagiarism scandal the paper called a “low point" in its 152-year history, has turned up with a first-person column in the spring issue of bp, a magazine chronicling bipolar disorder. In it, Blair gives his account of being diagnosed as bipolar—a recovery that includes medication and speaking engagements—as well as his take on the May 11, 2003 “7,000-word above-the-fold, front page story (accompanied by a 6,400-word litany of corrections).” Blair writes: “As a team of Times reporters and researchers dug into my background pulling together loose threads for (the... Folio Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1394161/posts#comment Sat, 30 Apr 2005 09:57:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1364614/posts Report: Trust in journalism has hit all-time low By Breeanna Hare and C.C. Song, Daily Staff Reporters March 17, 2005 Trust in journalism has hit new lows, according to the second annual State of the Media Report. Published by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the report showed that in the past 17 years, the public has come to see the press as self-serving and discreditable. The number of those who thought the press was highly professional fell from 72 percent to 49 percent, while the number of those who thought the press covered-up its mistakes rose from 13 percent... Michigan Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1364614/posts#comment Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:21:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348017/posts If this battle is lost, the wounded could include you Manning Pynn February 20, 2005 Wounds inflicted by the war on journalism have been neither physical nor fatal, but the injuries have extended far beyond newspapers and television news programs. Recent assaults have included the following: The federal government fed fake news segments, promoting administration programs, to television stations -- some of which naively aired the tapes. The federal government paid columnists and commentators to promote its programs as though the endorsements resulted from their own evaluations. A federal appeals court ruled that, on penalty of going to jail, two... Orlando Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348017/posts#comment Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:45:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327653/posts Newspaper Sacks Reporter Over Fake Yahoo Baby Mon Jan 24, 9:58 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters BUCHAREST, Romania (Reuters) - A Romanian tabloid said on Monday it had fired a reporter for making up a story about a couple who named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitude for meeting over the Internet. Bucharest daily Libertatea published a story this month saying two Romanians had named their baby for the popular Web site and printed a picture of his birth certificate. The news was published internationally, including by Reuters. "It was the reporter's child's birth certificate, which he... reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327653/posts#comment Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:37:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1321209/posts Mary Mapes, the CBS News producer from 60 Minutes who gave us Rathergate, has won the first journalism award given in memory of two of the worst rogues in the history of the profession, Walter Duranty and Jayson Blair. Duranty and Blair were both reporters for the New York Times, America’s most corrupt newspaper. To borrow from NBA commissioner David Stern, on his decision to suspend Ron Artest and the other Indiana Pacers thugs in the recent “basketbrawl,” the vote “was unanimous, 1-0.” As previously detailed, Mapes was guilty of no less than three major journalistic offenses -- her “Shot... A Different Drummer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1321209/posts#comment Sat, 15 Jan 2005 03:33:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316785/posts The New York Times, once ironically known as the "Newspaper of Record", has a problem. But they aren't lonesome. The same problem threatens CBS news, and the rest of the "mainstream" media. Though Dan Rather will soon be freed from his many duties in the news manufacturing division, and thus be able to enlist the aid of O.J. Simpson in finding the real perpetrator/hoaxer, there remains to the liberal media that nagging problem. And that is "the record". In the past, engineered crises and hard hitting ambushes, once they had accomplished their intended purposes, could be safely laid to rest,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316785/posts#comment Sat, 8 Jan 2005 19:16:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315805/posts Hard News: The Scandals at the New York Times and Their Meaning for American Mediaby Seth Mnookin (Random House, 352 pages, $25.95) JAYSON BLAIR GREW UP IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, Virginia, in a much more upscale neighborhood than this Fairfax-based reviewer can afford. His father was a bigshot at the Smithsonian and his mother a local schoolteacher. The family was heavily involved in a local church. Jayson started a chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in high school, even though he was not himself a jock. In eighth grade, he changed the spelling of his name to Jayson to stand... The American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315805/posts#comment Fri, 7 Jan 2005 06:46:56 GMT