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...resigned last week in an unprecedented downfall at a major American newspaper. At first glance, their toppling was the climax--the Times hopes--of a humiliating season of scandal that began with the disclosures that young reporter Jayson Blair had plagiarized or fabricated a string of stories. But at root, it was something more mundane and yet amazing: a workplace's staging a public mutiny to take down an unpopular boss. What fueled its unstoppable drama was that the mutiny took place at the country's most important (and some would add self-important) newspaper, placing an institution that...
...months later; investigators think he may have learned about firearms and explosives while stationed in Fort Benning, Ga. Two months before the Olympics bombing in Atlanta, he sold his childhood home for $65,000. The buyers discovered an underground hiding space in it; Rudolph had dubbed it "the root cellar...
...same goes for all of us. We can root out every error, every plagiarist, every bias--but it won't do any good if we replace them with a gutless inoffensiveness. We've spent a month being worried that our readers and viewers hate us because they think we're liars. Relax, brethren; they don't. They hate us because they think we're phonies...
...root cause of the Blair fiasco has not been addressed by the New York Times. First, the paper carried affirmative action to grotesque extremes, giving Blair breaks no young white reporter would have got. Then when Blair made mistakes that would not have been tolerated in a white reporter, the paper's editors didn't call Blair on them but instead rewarded him. When he hanged himself with the rope the Times so liberally provided, they fired him. Thus they ensured that he wouldn't learn from his initial mistakes by requiring that he face the just consequences, and then...
...Looking at the academic side in isolation doesn’t get to the root of the issue; it isn’t just that academic life is not good enough and needs improving,” he wrote to Kirby...