The New York Times continues to insist that the Jayson Blair affair had nothing to do with the fact that Blair is black. In today's Times, columnist Bob Herbert has some wise, true words and some that are demonstrably false. Mr. Blair was a first-class head case who was given a golden opportunity and responded […]
I'm informed by U.S. News & World Report columnist John Leo that the New York Times' diversity program -- the one that gave Jayson Blair his start -- was started in 1984 and continues today, but that it was opened to "people of pallor" in 2001.
One of the biggest problems newspapers have today is their use of anonymous sources. The latest misuse of what was once a method of last resort to get a story out was demonstrated by The New York TImes' Jayson Blair. Blair's (in)famous sniper story alleged that the feds had stopped the questioning of John Lee […]
I didn't mention it in my criticism of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's column below, but he took a pot-shot at Fox News anchor/commentator Neil Cavuto. Well, in Cavuto's commentary segment at the end of his show, he fired back. Among the tidbits, he described Krugman as a "sanctimonius twit," an "ass" and a […]
I've noticed an unfortunate change in The New York Times Web site recently. Until the past couple of weeks, all of the Times reporting for the last 30 days was available, free of charge, on the Web. Articles older than 30 days cost some cash to see. Also, a direct link to any Times story, […]
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, in the midst of the revelations of Jayson Blair's journalistic deceits and forgeries turns his eyes to bad journalism and comes up with -- every American media outlet except the Times. [A] funny thing happened during the Iraq war: many Americans turned to the BBC for their TV news. […]
This past weekend, The New York Times presented us with the first of what promises to be several accounts of the journalistic fraud perpetrated by former boy wonder Jayson Blair. The Times' account is, for the most part, a candid, brutal and honest assessment of where they went wrong when it came to Blair's work […]
Thanks to Patrick Wahl for giving me a heads-up on this column in today's Rocky Mountain News. At first glance it appears to be a column about the state of journalism in Britain and its many left-wing, anti-American tabloids. But, further down in the story, we find this paragraph: The most left-wing of the broadsheets […]
Today's New York Times has an article entitled: "Top Evangelicals Critical of Colleagues Over Islam." I'm not going to go into a great deal of depth on the article itself, except to say that while people like Jerry Falwell and Frankling Graham have said things regarding Islam that are true -- they're not tactful or […]
I've spent some time thinking about the brouhaha regarding former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair's plagiarism. If you're not familiar with the story, head over to MediaMinded -- he's done a fine job of covering the issue. I must confess that, while the Blair story was on my radar, it didn't really catch my […]