The reason is they are more concerned with the ethnic make-up of their staff than what they used to be known for, "truth in journalism"

In this high tech day and age, they should have been able to track the locations of their reporters, and check facts before going to press.

Instead, the editors are making sure there is an even racial balance of employees as possible.

The old time hard-core newspapermen must be spinning in their graves.

Here the current reporters and editors have the most sophisticated technology at their fingertips, yet are looking more and more and more like a high school paper every day.

They traded ethics for ethnics.

The reporter that was recently found to be plagiarizing and falsifying stories, Jayson Blair had a disturbing history of the same actions at every paper he either worked as a paid reporter or interned at. He seems to have lied about everything but his name, and now I'm not even sure about that.

Didn't his editor or supervisor question him further when he claimed to have a relative connected to every story he was assigned to? Or did political correctness or being just that stupid blind them.?

This guy came up with excuses that even the most inexperienced grade school sub teacher wouldn't buy.

These people are supposed to be professionals in their field. Yet the Times hired him and hauled him up the promotion ladder.

What is the reasoning for this?

His race, The owners and management are doing everything in the power to bring minorities on board, they ignored even the most outrageous behavior.

The Times was so obsessed with keeping a racial balance, they ignored the very thing their paper was built on.

Integrity.

They also ignored his apparent drug and alcohol use It seems the only qualifications for a by line today is growing up in a poor neighborhood, or skin pigment.

I used to like the Times, even with its liberal slant. They used to have reporting that you could find truth in, but no more.

They've sunken to the level of The Star, The National Enquirer, and other rags.

Maybe it's time to put the Times on the racks next to the cash registers.

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