Michael Goodwin, who writes opinion pieces for the NY Post, just published a column called “New York Times reporter broke the biggest rule in journalism (link here)”
It is about the Times reporter, Ali Watkins, who previously worked for other papers and who slept with her source, the head of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Good source.
He apparently shared classified information with her as well as his Precious Bodily Fluids. He has now been indicted.
Goodwin contrasts her lenient treatment with the standards of the legendary (and now departed) NYT editor, Abe Rosenthal.
Soon after a woman who had covered politics in Philadelphia was hired by the Times, a story from Philly said she had a secret affair with a politician she covered and accepted expensive gifts from him.
Rosenthal asked the woman if the story was true and, when she replied yes, immediately told her to clean out her desk and said she would never work for the paper again.
Word of the incident spread quickly through the newsroom, and several female reporters complained to Rosenthal. They argued that the woman was treated unfairly, at which point Abe raised his finger for silence and said something to this effect:
“I don’t care if you f–k an elephant on your personal time, but then you can’t cover the circus for the paper.”
–Michael Goodwin on Abe Rosenthal
Comment:
Today’s New York Times editors:
“Say, Ali, would you like to meet Jim Comey?”
House Republicans claim the tax plan they introduced Thursday keeps the top individual rate unchanged at 39.6 percent—the level at which it’s been capped for much of the past quarter-century. But a little-noticed provision effectively creates a new band in which income is taxed at over 45 percent.
In broad terms, the bill would eliminate or consolidate a number of tax deductions meant to offset the costs of higher education for individuals and companies, including the Lifetime Learning Credit, which provides a tax deduction of up to $2,000 for tuition, a credit for student-loan interest, and a $5,250 corporate deduction for education-assistance plans. –Chronicle of Higher Education
Hat Tip
No specifics on how the league plans to ensure it or act toward players who do not stand.
Democrats who were close to him will have to defend themselves and offer stories about their ignorance (some true, some false)
Despite the continued debate and legal wrangling over whether college affirmative action efforts are too aggressive, black and Hispanic freshmen were more underrepresented at the nation’s top schools in 2015 than they were in 1980, the Times analysis found.
The NYT report is useful but fails to follow-up on several crucial points and slides over others, notably the discrimination against high-achieving Asian-Americans (which is the subject of litigation for some Ivies). It doesn’t investigate Prof. Wax’s point, which suggests that, in an effort to raise minority enrollment, universities are admitting students who are not well-prepared for those particular schools and therefore perform poorly or drop out. If that’s the result, as some studies have shown, then these efforts to help minority students may actually harm many of them. The NYT report doesn’t shed any light on that question.
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Aides to the team have not yet decided who will tell the coaches and players that their next two opponents are the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers.
The Florida Keys are particularly vulnerable. But they are hardly alone.
The screed says it is aimed at the 1% but actually refers to New Yorkers whose incomes could not buy a modest two-bedroom in Manhattan.
The much-greater competence of authorities in Texas than in Louisiana, in Houston than in NOLA, and in FEMA today than under Bush. (Granted, being more competent than NOLA officials is a very low bar.)
It exposes sensitive personal data on 44% of the US population.
The key word is “allegation.” That word is missing from the NYT headline.
In hardware, the lab hopes to move beyond what’s popular in AI today — namely, graphics processors usually made by Nvidia — and start experimenting with processors that don’t rely on traditional chip designs, such as quantum computing, an area IBM has already been pursuing. –Forbes
The newspaper is seeking to have her lawsuit dismissed. But Mrs. Palin’s legal team says that Times lawyers are demanding a legal standard that would effectively make it impossible for any public official to win a libel case….
