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Steve O'Brien	Post subject: Was the Jayson Blair scandal a surprise? Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:39 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 20, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 17 Location: Staten Island, NY, United States	On page A15 of today's edition of the nation's "newspaper of record," John Kifner and Christine Hauser tell us that the population of Falluja is 200,000, whereas Eric Schmitt says it's about 300,000.<p>Why didn't these reporters, or their editor, emulate the professionalism of the BBC by checking www.world-gazetteer.com and using its Falluja population figure of 284,500?<p>Is it any wonder that the Jayson Blair scandal happened in the pages of the Gray Lady?
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Matthew Grieco	Post subject: Re: Was the Jayson Blair scandal a surprise? Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:44 pm
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 2266 Location: New Jersey	No.
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JPSheehan	Post subject: Re: Was the Jayson Blair scandal a surprise? Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:12 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 05, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 101 Location: Inner Baltimore	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Steve O'Brien: Is it any wonder that the Jayson Blair scandal happened in the pages of the Gray Lady?<hr></blockquote><p>Mind the schadenfreude. Jayson Blair is everywhere.
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Steve O'Brien	Post subject: Re: Was the Jayson Blair scandal a surprise? Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 2:13 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 20, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 17 Location: Staten Island, NY, United States	Mr. Sheehan, since I believe in original sin, I agree that Jayson Blair is everywhere.<p>I've drawn the attention of Daniel Okrent, the public editor of The New York Times, to this thread.
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Steve O'Brien	Post subject: Re: Was the Jayson Blair scandal a surprise? Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:23 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 20, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 17 Location: Staten Island, NY, United States	Mr. Okrent thanked me and expressed the hope that the foreign desk would decide on a number for Falluja's population.
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JPSheehan	Post subject: Re: Was the Jayson Blair scandal a surprise? Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:47 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 05, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 101 Location: Inner Baltimore	Steve, as they say over in Red Hook (at least they did last time I was there): "You got the juice."
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carola	Post subject: Re: Was the Jayson Blair scandal a surprise? Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 1:57 pm
Joined: Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 43 Location: pennsylvania	Well, I'd take about 1000 off that number given the killings of insurgents and innocent civilians. U.S. forces have fired on ambulances and unarmed civilians, according to one indepedent eyewitnesss.
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paulwiggins	Post subject: Re: Was the Jayson Blair scandal a surprise? Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 6:54 pm
Joined: Wed Oct 08, 2003 12:01 am Posts: 3137 Location: Homebush NSW Australia	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Steve O'Brien: [QB]the professionalism of the BBC by checking www.world-gazetteer.com and using its Falluja population figure of 284,500?<p>QB]<hr></blockquote> Excellent advice. But here's a caveat: Places such as Sydney - as the three main NSW cities move spread out towards each other - have fuzzy geographical borders that make population a matter of definition.<p>[ April 25, 2004: Message edited by: Paul Wiggins ]</p>
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