Post by selfishreasons on May 12, 2003 18:58:56 GMT -5
Today I sae an article about a reporter of the New York Times who was found to have fabricated stories. Somehow he was making up stories according to recent events. This gentleman worked for the Times for 4 years. He wrote over 700 articles for the Times.
After seeing American reporters being caught for looting in Iraq and after the onesided press coverage by mainstream new concerning the recent war do you believe that this man is the only reporter doing this, or is he the only one who got caught? Is this man's corruption isolated or is it apart of wide spread journalist
corruption?
The reporter, Jayson Blair, 27, misled readers and Times colleagues with dispatches that purported to be from Maryland, Texas and other states, when often he was far away, in New York. He fabricated comments. He concocted scenes. He lifted material from other newspapers and wire services. He selected details from photographs to create the impression he had been somewhere or seen someone, when he had not.
And he used these techniques to write falsely about emotionally charged moments in recent history, from the deadly sniper attacks in suburban Washington to the anguish of families grieving for loved ones killed in Iraq.
In an inquiry focused on correcting the record and explaining how such fraud could have been sustained within the ranks of The Times, the Times journalists have so far uncovered new problems in at least 36 of the 73 articles Mr. Blair wrote since he started getting national reporting assignments late last October. In the final months the audacity of the deceptions grew by the week, suggesting the work of a troubled young man veering toward professional self-destruction.
Mr. Blair, who has resigned from the paper, was a reporter at The Times for nearly four years, and he was prolific. Spot checks of the more than 600 articles he wrote before October have found other apparent fabrications, and that inquiry continues.
www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/national/11PAPE.html?ex=1053316800&en=f5075a75583248bf&ei=5059&partner=AOL
After seeing American reporters being caught for looting in Iraq and after the onesided press coverage by mainstream new concerning the recent war do you believe that this man is the only reporter doing this, or is he the only one who got caught? Is this man's corruption isolated or is it apart of wide spread journalist
corruption?
The reporter, Jayson Blair, 27, misled readers and Times colleagues with dispatches that purported to be from Maryland, Texas and other states, when often he was far away, in New York. He fabricated comments. He concocted scenes. He lifted material from other newspapers and wire services. He selected details from photographs to create the impression he had been somewhere or seen someone, when he had not.
And he used these techniques to write falsely about emotionally charged moments in recent history, from the deadly sniper attacks in suburban Washington to the anguish of families grieving for loved ones killed in Iraq.
In an inquiry focused on correcting the record and explaining how such fraud could have been sustained within the ranks of The Times, the Times journalists have so far uncovered new problems in at least 36 of the 73 articles Mr. Blair wrote since he started getting national reporting assignments late last October. In the final months the audacity of the deceptions grew by the week, suggesting the work of a troubled young man veering toward professional self-destruction.
Mr. Blair, who has resigned from the paper, was a reporter at The Times for nearly four years, and he was prolific. Spot checks of the more than 600 articles he wrote before October have found other apparent fabrications, and that inquiry continues.
www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/national/11PAPE.html?ex=1053316800&en=f5075a75583248bf&ei=5059&partner=AOL
