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《纽约时报》记者编造事实被解雇
http://www.sina.com.cn 2003/05/19 10:37  北京青年报

  The NewYorkTimes is America's "newspaper of record", i.e. the newspa-per that readers and scholars turn to first for comprehensive, detailed and factually accurate reporting. Operating on the center-left of the US political spectrum, the paper is highly respected -- but also widely disliked, especially by right-wingers and people on the hard and far left.①Yet even those who loathe the paper's characteristic politi-cal attitudes expect②it to get the facts straight.

  Wayne Stayskal's cartoon refers to the scandalous discovery that Jayson Blair, a 27-year-old reporter with four years on the staff of the Times, had been fabricating facts, quotes and expense account bills right up to his sudden exposure and dismissal early this month. Last weekend the Timespublished a massive self-criticism detailing Blair's lies and the paper's failure over the years to follow up on numerous indications that something was amiss. American journalism is shaken by a scandal of this sort once every few years.

  Stayskal shows us a street scene in what is probably New York. The man reading the Times at the bus stop remarks on a story③that begins with the words "Once upon a time", the classic opening for fairy tales in English. Calling an account a "fairy tale", however, is also a common way of saying that it is an obvious lie.

《纽约时报》记者编造事实被解雇

  《纽约时报》是美国“资料报纸”,也就是说,它是读者和学者们在想得到全面、详细、准确的报道时的首选报纸。在美国政治频谱中立场稍稍偏左的《纽约时报》极受尊重,但也有很多人不喜欢它,特别是右翼以及中左和极左的人。然而即便是那些憎恨该报特有的政治态度的人也认为它应该获取准确无误、毫不含糊的事实。

  韦恩-斯第斯卡尔的漫画指的是最近令人愤慨的新发现:杰森-布莱尔,27岁的记者,在《纽约时报》干了4年,却一直在编造事实、当事者的话以及报销费用清单,直到本月初他突然被曝光并被解雇。上周末《纽约时报》刊出了进行自我批评的大块文章,其中详述了布莱尔的谎话以及报社数年来没有能够对众多有问题的迹象进行追查。美国的报业隔几年就会被这样的丑闻动摇一次。

  斯第斯卡尔为我们展示了一幅街景,地点大概是在纽约。在汽车站旁读《纽约时报》的一位男士正评论一条新闻,该新闻以“从前啊”几个字开头,这是英语童话故事的典型开头。而把一篇新闻报道说成是“童话故事”,则是说它显然在说谎的一种常用说法。




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