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Civil-affairs reservists hand out food and supplies, just the people who would be needed to get Iraq back on its feet once the fighting stopped. In February Chris was called to Fort Bragg, N.C., for training, and by the time the bombs began to fall, he was in Kuwait. "This deployment felt different to both of us," Betsy says. When Chris went to Kosovo, they knew the separation would be hard and that there was still some risk. "But we both knew Iraq was a more hostile environment," she says. It was some comfort to know that a unit...
...hundreds of employees in a Times Square movie theater--which made it clear that Raines and Boyd needed to act very fast to fix morale. Among other things, the paper appointed a committee to make management suggestions--and began looking for other Blairs. Then came a second scandal: Rick Bragg, a Pulitzer prizewinning feature writer, was suspended after he filed a story about oystermen in Florida that had been largely reported by an uncredited intern. Bragg further enraged the newsroom when he claimed that Times national reporters did things like that all the time. When Raines issued a mild...
...Bragg case caused a minor public flap compared with Blair's, but it was ultimately more damaging to Raines. Journalists started giving anti-Raines quotes to competitors; they ranted against Bragg and Times management on a popular website for journalists. It didn't help that when Sulzberger went to the Times Washington bureau for a brown-bag lunch, an employee said, "he got a harsher message than he expected...
When the New York Times's Jayson Blair was busted for plagiarism and fabrications--and then its star writer Rick Bragg was suspended and quit after claiming an intern's reporting as his own--the media lit up like the switchboard of a gossipy small town. Reporters investigated reporters. The Times newsroom erupted in finger pointing. Journalism professors raised themselves up on their suede elbow patches to tsk-tsk. Newspapers worriedly reviewed their policies. Collectively, we agonized: Will the public ever trust us again...
...Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants." RICK BRAGG, New York Times reporter, defending himself after he was suspended for using uncredited material from an intern in a story about Florida oystermen. His comment infuriated some newsroom colleagues, and he later resigned...