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Inflicting bodily harm can actually be a poor method of extracting information. A detainee is likely to be so eager to end his pain he will confess to anything, even untruths, notes Rick Smith, a retired 25-year veteran...
...didn’t hear about various pieces of legislation before Congress and state legislatures which, as queers, we might have an interest in either supporting or opposing. We didn’t even hear the outrage that should have attended the remarks by U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., that compared homosexuality to polygamy and bestiality...
...hundreds of employees in a Times Square movie theater--which made it clear that Raines and Boyd needed to act very fast to fix morale. Among other things, the paper appointed a committee to make management suggestions--and began looking for other Blairs. Then came a second scandal: Rick Bragg, a Pulitzer prizewinning feature writer, was suspended after he filed a story about oystermen in Florida that had been largely reported by an uncredited intern. Bragg further enraged the newsroom when he claimed that Times national reporters did things like that all the time. When Raines issued a mild...
When the New York Times's Jayson Blair was busted for plagiarism and fabrications--and then its star writer Rick Bragg was suspended and quit after claiming an intern's reporting as his own--the media lit up like the switchboard of a gossipy small town. Reporters investigated reporters. The Times newsroom erupted in finger pointing. Journalism professors raised themselves up on their suede elbow patches to tsk-tsk. Newspapers worriedly reviewed their policies. Collectively, we agonized: Will the public ever trust us again...
...Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants." RICK BRAGG, New York Times reporter, defending himself after he was suspended for using uncredited material from an intern in a story about Florida oystermen. His comment infuriated some newsroom colleagues, and he later resigned...