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Mnookin wrote the book in about a year, though he says this was only possible because of his previous coverage and extensive notes culled from reporting on the scandal for Newsweek. “I didn’t need to start from scratch,” he says, “there was a lot I could build on right away...
Impressively, Seth Mnookin ’94 has turned a New York Times plagiarism scandal into riveting reading for those outside the insular world of journalism. Though the falsification of articles might not seem the stuff of riveting reading, Mnookin’s debut book, Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media, is not only highly informative but also surprisingly entertaining to those unschooled in the nuances of newspapers...
Hard News uses the Blair scandal as the launching point of a broader examination of the workings of the Times, particuarly focusing on the rise and fall of Raines. As the executive editor of the Times from days before Sept. 11, 2001 to weeks after the Blair scandal first broke, Raines steered the paper to an unprecedented seven Pulitzer Prizes in 2002 for its coverage of the 9/11 attacks. But his combative demeanor and favoritism, eclipsed by the paper’s success in the aftermath of Sept. 11, became his Achilles’ heel in the Blair case...
...fame as a way of legitimize this deal—independent or not, they suck and besides, no one is trying to take that name. But it’s both members of the Postal Service (band) that have enjoyed the most fruits of this attention-getting scandal: their album remains for the 90th week on Billboard’s top independents, and supplies background music for many of MTV’s shows. If this trajectory continues, and people get to conveniently purchase their music at every zip code, they might even be on MTV in the form...
...April 2003, the University of California (UC) Berkeley proposed a ban on student-professor relationships in the wake of a sex scandal surrounding a student at Berkeley’s law school and the school’s then-dean. Berkeley, like many other schools, had an “unwritten rule” that students and faculty should not get involved, according to Gayle Binion, chair of UC’s Academic Senate and a political science professor at UC Santa Barbara...