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[05.11.03] Is Howell Next? The New York Times runs a huge mea-culpa on the Jayson Blair affair. Apparently, some at the Times spotted the problem relatively early:

His mistakes became so routine, his behavior so unprofessional, that by April 2002, Jonathan Landman, the metropolitan editor, dashed off a two-sentence e-mail message to newsroom administrators that read: "We have to stop Jayson from writing for the Times. Right now."

By last October, the newspaper's top two editors — who said they believed that Mr. Blair had turned his life and work around — had guided him to the understaffed national desk, where he was assigned to help cover the Washington sniper case.

The sniper attacks in suburban Washington dominated the nation's newspapers last October. "This was a `flood the zone' story," Mr. Roberts, the national editor, recalled, invoking the phrase that has come to embody the paper's aggressive approach to covering major news events under Mr. Raines, its executive editor.

Mr. Raines and Mr. Boyd, the managing editor, quickly increased the size of the team to eight reporters, Mr. Blair among them. "This guy's hungry," Mr. Raines said last week, recalling why he and Mr. Boyd picked Mr. Blair.

Speaking of the New York Times, this is an interesting news item currently on their front page:

In Baghdad's Anarchy, the Insane Went Free
By PATRICK E. TYLER
Iraq's only hospital providing long-term care for serious mental disorders was all but destroyed in the war.

How bizarre...

Posted by: Aakash at May 11, 2003 10:44:45 PM

Of course, this is prima facie evidence of the pressing need to bring back the torture chambers and the human shredding machines.

Posted by: Patrick Ruffini at May 11, 2003 10:58:34 PM

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