When It Raines
Mnookin, Seth
BOOKS IN REVIEW - "When It Raines" this point likely to all but wipe out any more potential gains. Others argue that immigration is the cure to population ills and that, by allowing immigrants from poorer regions of...
...He charged, without evidence, that a student who had died in his sleep had expired because of a cocaine overdose...
...By the time he went to the Times in 1998, in an internship program that then barred whites from participation, "he already had a loaded reputation: Globe reporters had warned their friends at the Times to be careful around Blair...
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...Recently in Australia—which currently averages a record low for that country of 1.75 births per woman—officials have urged couples to begin having larger families...
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...A binational state is a non-starter and, realistically, a Palestinian state in any portion of Judea/Samaria and Gaza (even in the unlikely case that the Israelis were ever willing to concede it) would not be viable...
...If they were unhappy with that solution they would be at liberty to migrate to any of the over twenty Arab countries that, one would hope, would welcome them with open arms...
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...For decades, the declared thrust of the Palestinians has been their desire of having their own state – in Judea/Samaria (the "West Bank") and in the Gaza Strip...
...Blair not only survived his scrapes with section editors, he eventually was posted to cover the D.C...
...Though the relationship between Boyd and Blair is still not entirely clear, the second-in-command did go to bat for the young reporter on a few occasions, which proved useful to Blair when other reporters were calling for his head because of his high error rate...
...But it has no basis in fact at all...
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...They would thus have accomplished what they were unable to attain by any other means, namely the destruction of the Jewish state...
...The story has been told before but never so well...
...But secular societies have also recognized the dangers of the decline and are attempting to head it off...
...The coverage earned an attaboy from Raines and helped to shore Blair up against most criticism...
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...To get the answer, one only needs to go next door to Lebanon...
...In an action that moved the London Spectator's press critic to label it "the most arrogant newspaper in the world," the Times launched a massive investigation and published two whole pages detailing some of Blair's deceptions...
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...In 1927 Packard commissioned the world's most complicated watch hut not to be outdone...
...He also makes the bold recommendation that governments offer a reprieve to parents on paying into social security systems...
...Mnookin's diligent reconstruction allows readers to be a fly on the wall as we watch the young reporter and the old editor come undone...
...He very likely faked his first story for the high school paper, assigning the byline to another staffer and quoting himself extensively...
...sniper mania of 2002...
...He landed internships at the Boston Globe and then the New York Times...
...But this was the New York Times—the so-called paper of record—and this challenge to its infallibility could not stand...
...This was ratified by the 52 countries of the League of Nations...
...The promise to elevate black assistant managing editor Gerald Boyd to the number two slot was part of Raines's long Absalom-like campaign to take over when Joseph Lelyveld retired...
...Relying on multiple anonymous sources, Blair said that the police's working picture differed wildly from what they were telling the rest of the press—including the howler that John Lee Malvo, not John Mohammad, was the principal triggerman...
...As Seth Mnookin tells it in Hard News, when Blair began applying for journalism internships in 1996, "he was simply too good to check—a young, ambitious, talented black reporter eager to succeed in an industry that was desperate to diversify its ranks...
...Jason started a chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in high school, even though he was not himself a jock...
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...The Palestinians, just as the over one million Arabs now living in Israel with full rights as citizens, could be part of Israel, with full autonomy and with their own internal governance...
...Given the time constraints, reporters touched only a portion of his 600-plus stories since he landed at the paper...
...Now, a new idea has taken hold and is propagated in national media: a binational state, encompassing those territories and "Israel proper...
...The pigment of his skin was very obviously dark...
...Created as a Jewish state: Israel was created as a Jewish state by the will of the nations of the world and by the brain and brawn of the Jewish people...
...According to Yasser Arafat, the most important weapon of the Arabs is the "Arab womb," the motto being: "If we can't defeat them in war, let's outbreed them...
...After he bombed out of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, he went to the University of Maryland, Jeremy Lott is the foreign press criticfor GetReligion.org...
...Why should Israel, one of the most advanced countries in the world in virtually every field of endeavor, make itself hostage to those who live in backwardness and ignorance and who are guided by religious fanaticism...
...The Palestinians, just as the over one million Arabs now living in Israel with full rights as citizens, could be part of Israel, with full autonomy and with their own internal governance (something that the Kurds would give anything to attain...
...This was made possible, says Mnookin, by Alabamian Howell Raines's rise to executive editor of the New York Times...
...It is a myth...
...Longman recommends that secular societies come up with better ways of educating young adults and integrating them into the work force, thereby reducing tensions between work and procreation...
...However, with population contractions on the horizon for developing countries like Mexico, and because the United States is already competing with Europe for immigrants from other parts of the world such as North Africa, this seems at best a tenuous solution to a problem close at hand...
...And that is exactly what would happen if there ever were a "binational" state...
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...Strife broke out, which ultimately culminated in a bloody civil war that lasted for close to ten years and in which scores of thousands died...
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...What then is the possible solution to this enduring problem...
...If Israel were ever to consent to the creation of a binational state, how would it work out...
...But the peace with Egypt is the coldest imaginable...
...In what was in all likelihood a major act of folly, but in order to attain peace with Egypt, Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt...
...And they did indeed come up with something...
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...Do the Spaniards consider a binational state with the Basques...
...There is no reason why the Israelis would turn their country over to those who are their declared mortal enemies...
...Do the Turks plan to establish a binational state with the Kurds (or do the Iranians or Iraqis, for that matter...
...Of course not...
...He "broke" several stories about the case and helped to shatter the Times's credibility in the process...
...He fired another editor when the staff questioned him and then decided to step down for "personal reasons...
...It is often said by people that knew him back when that he had "charm" or "charisma," and they usually note his seemingly "boundless energy" or his "electric smile" while missing his overall slipperiness...
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...In the United States, 47 percent of people who consider themselves religious say that the ideal family size is three or more children, as compared to only 27 percent of those who are not religious...
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...His father was a bigshot at the Smithsonian and his mother a local schoolteacher...
...Insistence that these are Arab lands andthat the Jews are "occupiers" is a notion that has been repeated so often and for so long that most of the world has come to believe it...
...At the Times, Blair had problems with accuracy, with plagiarism, and with relations with his colleagues...
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...But ultimately, only a culture that values families, and only individuals who believe raising children is an essential pursuit, can correct the demographic decline we are about to enter...
...In eighth grade, he changed the spelling of his name to Jayson to stand out, and that was the byline that would grace the Centreville Sentinel, the biweekly high school newspaper where Blair became the news editor...
...After World War I, England and France carved up the Ottoman Empire, with England retaining what are now Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and Iraq, and France being in possession of what are now Syria and Lebanon...
...He notes one primary exception to this rule—studies have found that there is a strong correlation between religious conviction and fertility...
...It was held in the Museum of Time for years until it was recently auctioned off for the record price of over $11 million dollars at Sotheby's...
...1/4 When It Raines Hard News: The Scandals at the New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media by Seth Mnookin (Random House, 352 pages, $25.95) Reviewed by Jeremy Lott ASON BLAIR GREW UP in Fairfax County Virginia, in a much more upscale neighborhood than this Fairfax-based reviewer can afford...
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...He added for good measure, "Go home tonight and do it for your country...
...was obsessed with diversity, and Raines aimed to give it to him...
...In 1917, the Balfour Declaration, proclaimed by the British mandatory power, established all of Palestine – east and west of the Jordan River – as the reconstituted homeland for the Jewish people...
...In a field that is still dominated by whites but obsessed with diversity, this gave him a much-needed leg up...
...Its purpose is the research and publication of the facts regarding developments in the Middle East and exposing false propaganda that might harm the interests of the United States and its allies in that area of the world...
...Of course not...
...Do the Chinese propose the formation of a binational state with the Tibetans...
...Nevertheless, he was offered a job, along with the three other minority interns that year...
...Further, Times metro desk editor Joyce Purnick told Blair that his career would be better served by starting elsewhere and working his way up to the Gray Lady...
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...Though Mnookin treats Blair as essentially a bit player in a much larger story, the body blow that the young journalist landed on the paper's reputation is still being felt...
...Can anybody really believe that, given the mortal hatred of the Moslems against the Jews, things would be any different in Israel/Palestine...
...Israel was founded to be the Jewish homeland and it will never acquiesce to its own destruction by allowing itself to become a binational state...
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...Head of the national treasury Peter Costello dangled a $3,000 maternity bonus in front of potential parents this summer and told them, "You should have one for the father, one for the mother and one for the country...
...He advocates education as a lifetime pursuit and more opportunities for part-time employment...
...Thus, having been unable to defeat Israel in war and unable to wear it down by their "intifadas," the Arabs had to think up something new in order to destroy Israel...
...Review of history: The Arabs have launched four major wars against Israel, at the end of which Israel remained in possession of all the lands west of the Jordan River, the undivided city of Jerusalem, the vast Sinai, the Golan Heights and the Gaza Strip...
...Throughout much of American history, immigrants have indeed renewed the nation with their vitality...
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...A bloody civil war would be the inevitable result...
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...This would be a hard track-record for most people to live down, but Blair had one other card to play...
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...The familywas heavily involved in a local church...
...He argues that, in raising children, parents already contribute to these systems in the form of human capital...
...He blew deadlines and made up implausible stories to cover for himself...
...In order to provide a safe haven for the Maronite Christians, the French carved out the artificial state of Lebanon...
...He likely manufactured quotes and lifted them from other sources without attribution...
...The slogan is "One Land for 11vo Peoples...
...Within just one generation, the population ratio had begun to change in favor of the Moslems...
...Graves made millions in banking and railroads while Packard was crafting some of the most beautiful automobiles ever built...
...There can be little doubt that, within a generation or less, the Arabs would have outbred their Jewish fellow citizens and would have become the majority in the country...
...He delayed acceptance by saying that he wanted to graduate first, but then came on in 1999 with coursework still outstanding...
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...Blair was a climber and a gossip, skilled at alienating his friends and colleagues but also adept at getting in good with the powers that be...
...According to Longman, some biologists now speculate that human beings have engineered a self-destructive environment in which the "fittest" members of the species have an incentive to produce few or no children...
...About half of the stories that he wrote while working on the national beat were found to contain fraudulent or lifted material, and it's possible that the full extent of Blair's phoniness went much deeper...
...Business Week July, 2003) The hands of the four interior complications on our Graves"' watch display the month, day, date, and a 24 hour clock that graphically depicts the sun and the moon...
...As before, he worked the internal politics of the Times to his immense benefit and, ultimately, the paper's detriment...
...Why, therefore, should Israel even consider sharing its country with those whose never-changing agenda is its destruction...
...But in their genteel world of high society, they were at war...
...Others argue that immigration is the cure to population ills and that, by allowing immigrants from poorer regions of the world access to the opportunities of the West, everyone's problems could be solved...
...Artificial countries: With the exception of Egypt, all the countries of the Middle East are artificial creations...
...As in previous positions, when he ran into trouble, he wasn't slow to allege racism...
...Upon discovering that Blair had not only plagiarized material from other sources, but given up travel to pound out pieces in his filthy New York apartment, inventing details to fill in the gaps, most papers would have sacked the reporter, run a correction or two, and brazened out the media firestorm...
...Blair was a climber and a gossip, skilled at alienating his friends and colleagues but also adept at getting in good with the powers that be—in this case, the adults...
...This wasn't the only time allegations ofjournalistic malfeasance would crop up between high school and Blair's icon-shattering run at the New York Times...
...The Blair scandal set off a series of angry reactions that led to Howell Raines's resignation only 20 months after he had taken control of the Times...
Vol. 37 • December 2004 • No. 10
