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Monday, May 26, 2003
Conservative heal thyself....
It's just a small goof but I took great pleasure in reading it. Bruce Bartlett is one of those think tankers who feel compelled to write about, well, anything, because that's what think tank guys do to justify their phoney-baloney jobs. Usually Bartlett's forte is tax cuts where he is invariably wrong. This week he decided to take on...Jayson Blair. This is what's known as coming down out of the hills and shooting the wounded. Here's Bartlett (you may notice the error right away. It's what he says later that makes it fun):
The Jayson Blair scandal at the New York Times has engendered more commentary than any similar press scandal I can recall. Although in substance, the scandals involving Janet Cooke at the Washington Post, Stephen Glass and Ruth Shalit at the New Republic, and Mike Barnacle at the Boston Globe are similar, the Blair scandal seems to have much greater resonance.
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To me, the most extraordinary aspect of the Blair scandal, in which he routinely made up quotes and stories, is that no one seriously complained. Apparently, any number of people saw stories about them by Mr. Blair that were patently false and quotes from them that were never uttered, yet they didn’t even ask for a correction.
Of course, the fact that the Times ignored many of those who did raise concerns is also a stain on the paper’s record. But I find it amazing that so many people who were abused by Mr. Blair just said, “to hell with it” or “why bother.” They may even have felt that this sort of thing is standard at the Times. Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz has called this possibility “pretty depressing stuff.”
I’ve never spoken to Mr. Blair, but I have been quoted many times in the New York Times and other major papers. I have to say, I have never bothered to correct a reporter’s misquotation of my words—even when it was grossly in error. In my business, I want to be quoted. As long as they spell my name right, why should I risk alienating a reporter by asking for a correction when no one reads corrections anyway?
Yeah. Let's ask Mike Barnacle.
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