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05/11/2003 Archived Entry: "Jayson Blair: Scapegoat"
Jayson Blair: Scapegoat
Okay, so the NYTimes finds out that one of their reporters has been less than truthful in his methods of reporting, and for that he should be dismissed like other repotrers like Janet Cooke who committed similiar transgressions.
But I'm wondering why the Times enlisted 7 reporters and 2 researchers and wrote a ten-page expose of Blair that's currently riding on the NYT front page.
The Times has run a lot of bogus shit over the years - from their misguided reporting of the Whitewater episode, to their hatchet-job on Wen Ho Lee, to Kit Seelye's gross misrepresentation of Al Gore's 'Love Canal' quote, which spawned the whole 'Al Gore is a serial liar' meme.
I get the feeling that Jayson Blair is a sacrifice to the gods of The Appearance of Journalistic Integrity.
Atrios has covered this much better than I have, and he's compiling a running list of reporters who have done the same thing Blair did - and still have their jobs.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
What are you, some kind of moron? Jeeze! Jayson Blair a sacrifice? I don't know if you or Blair is a bigger idiot! Blair is a lying, cheating little worthless, talentless, weasle, who didn't know when he had a good thing going. The only reason he got his job at the Times was because of the Times' white liberal guilt invocation of affirmative action...he wasn't qualified for the position, he didn't merit the position, he should have been fired long before he was for lysing and cheating and stealing others' work...but because he was the Times' token affirmative action boy reporter, they kept propping him up and covering up for him, until things just blew the hell up in their faces. Blair's only notable contribution at this point is to have provided the clearest possible example of why affirmative action is nothing more than a dirty little version of reverse discrimination, that artificially gives to those who do not merit the opportunity on their own abilities. Blair a "scapegoat"? You are quite an idiot. Blair should burn in hell, along with the idiots at the Times who put him where he was.
Posted by casting aspursions @ 05/12/2003 10:48 PM NY
