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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (837)5/10/2003 1:44:35 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793980
 
Quite an article on Blair. It lays out the deception, and shows that a year ago one editor, at least, was calling for his dismissal. Instead, he got off with "counseling," and a transfer to the National Desk, a plum assignment. Where the Editors were never told of his prior problems!

Blair was hired short of his degree, after a student intern program, directly by the Times. This, on a paper that prides itself on hiring people only after they have been seasoned on other papers.

The one major point that is not mentioned in this article, that explains why he got away with it for so long, is that Raines was holding Blair up as a "Poster Boy" for minority hiring. He mentioned him in several speeches.

Raines fingerprints are all over this mistake.The paper was obviously giving this man latitude they would never have given another reporter.
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