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would grant her his only TV interview, for Italian TV, undertaken within two years of the Village Voice episode - but his physical
assault ended their relationship as lovers.
(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, p. 391)
Second character-revealing incident - how Kosinski had fun behind the wheel.
On the long straightaway crossing the Tappan Zee Bridge, he opened it up to 120, pure exhilaration for a boy who had been told
always to do things carefully, legally, and correctly. A little farther along they found themselves stuck on a two-lane road behind a
slow driver. As a man who would one day drive Formula One race cars, David was astonished at the fluidity and skill with which
Kosinski finally got around the recalcitrant ahead of him - and entertained mightily when Kosinski then slowed to a crawl and
used those skills to prevent the car from passing him. He was more than a little shocked, however, when Kosinski persisted with
the game in the face of an oncoming truck, causing the other car to run off into a ditch.
(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, pp. 150-151)
Third character-revealing incident - how Kosinski played a little joke on one of his students.
Kosinski looked at the young man severely. "You know, the very first time I saw you I got the feeling you were going to die
young," he said. "In the past twenty years I've had the same feeling about several people and each time I've had it, they died. Of
course, I could be wrong this time."
The young man, who was afraid of being drafted and sent to Vietnam, started to cry.
(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, p. 287)
Fourth character-revealing incident - how Kosinski exposed Yale students to the intellectual contributions
of the Neo Charles Mansonists.
As part of the class, the Yale undergraduates were required to write about their own deaths. To stimulate their thinking, Kosinski
brought in members of the Process Church of the Final Judgement - a group of Satanists who arrived dressed in gray. They
saw themselves as having some sort of tenuous link with Charles Manson's Helter-Skelter family. Proselytizing in Kosinski's Yale
classroom, they urged the students to "accept and embrace evil within themselves." This notion was uncomfortably close to
Kosinski's own claim to Krystyna Iwaszkiewicz that he could achieve revenge upon his enemies because of a pact with the Devil
[...]. The classroom episode took an unexpected turn when a young Jewish student went off with the Satanists, prompting an
exchange with the student's parents over the pedagogical appropriateness of this classroom activity.
(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, pp. 300-301)
Fifth character-revealing incident - how Kosinski entertained his dining partners.
One day, when the three couples had planned to have dinner in the city, Rose Styron arrived first and was persuaded to be his
accomplice in a prank. Kosinski would hide in his apartment on Seventy-ninth Street, and the others would look for him. They
came, looked, failed to find, and began to grow cross; Sadri was ready for dinner, and didn't find the prank so funny. Kosinski
finally unfolded himself from behind the cabinets in his darkroom.
(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, p. 262)
Sixth character-revealing incident - what Kosinski did to Marian Javits's dog - from which some might
conclude that Jerzy Kosinski was not only the kind of man that you would not leave alone with your
daughter, and not only the kind of man that you would not leave alone with your son - he was the kind of
man that you would not leave alone with your dog.
Marian Javits, in particular, was charmed by him, and she continued to be his friend even after his stories and eccentricities had
become familiar - this despite the fact that one of his eccentricities had to do with her dog. Lying in bed recovering from a leg
injury received while riding, she was startled when her dog ran furiously across the room, dripping urine. A moment later Kosinski
appeared at the door. Later a friend told her that Kosinski had been observed abusing the dog in a way that would engender such
behavior.
(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, p. 263)
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T.R. Reid Washington Post 9May98 60 Minutes gullibility
The program featured dramatic footage of a drug "mule" said to be smuggling several
million dollars' worth of heroin to London for Colombia's Cali drug cartel. The Guardian
reported, though, that the "mule" actually carried no drugs, that his trip to London was
paid for by the documentary's producers, and that many of the report's dramatic
moments were faked.
The instance of 60 Minutes credulity documented in the T.R. Reid Washington Post
article below occasions the following reflections, some of which demonstrate the
relevance of the article to Ukrainain affairs:
Successful Criminals Do Not Make Public Confessions. The 60 Minutes drug
smuggling broadcast whose title I will assume was The Mule shows individuals who
cooperate in a documentary exposing their own highly lucrative criminal activities
which is an incongruity. Successful criminals do not make public disclosure of their
crimes because this hastens their getting caught. I have discussed this self-evident
principle at length in Impossibilities of a TV documentary - whose focus is an ABC
television Prime Time documentary titled Girls for Sale featuring this same incongruity
of successful criminals disclosing their crimes, in this case the crime of employing
Slavic girls as sex slaves in Israel. One may say, then, that television news
sometimes demonstrates almost childlike insensitivity to incongruity, which is the same
as saying that it demonstrates almost childlike credulity, and that one incongruity
that it appears particularly insensitive to is that of successful criminals making
public confession of their crimes.
Television News Overlooks Many Diverse Incongruities. The earlier 60 Minutes
broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom is similar in that it was loaded with palpable
incongruities, though not the incongruity of criminals publicly confessing their
crimes. For example, while host Morley Safer is describing a pogrom which was supposed
to have taken place in Ukraine in July of 1941, the scene being shown is of bodies
lying on the ground in snow. Multiply this sort of incongruity a hundredfold - I do
not exaggerate - and you create the 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom.
The explanation may be different each time. In each case, some explanation of
such incongruities is called for, and in each case the explanation may be different.
In the case of the 60 Minutes story The Mule, the explanation seems to be that a
fraudulent story advanced the career of a documentary filmmaker. In the case of the
ABC TV Prime Time story Girls for Sale, my speculation is that the story was true and
that it advanced Israeli interests. And in the case of the 60 Minutes story The Ugly
Face of Freedom, it is evident that the story was false, my speculation being again
that it advanced Israeli interests.
North American News May be Particularly Susceptible to Corruption. We have
three reasons for suspecting this, two of them coming from Reid's Washington Post
article below: (i) Reid describes London journalism as "furiously competitive" where "a
dozen newspapers and four TV networks regularly investigate - and savage - one
another's reporting" and contrasts this with the United States where "newspapers and TV
networks generally don't go on the attack against the other guy's story." (ii) The
British government's Independent Commission requires TV news to demonstrate "a respect
for truth," whereas in the United States, the accuracy of news reporting is not subject
to any official review. (iii) We see Israel Shahak repeatedly offering the observation
that North American news shows a unique degree of submission to Jewish control, as for
example in the following statement:
The bulk of the organized US Jewish community is totalitarian,
chauvinistic and militaristic in its views. This fact remains
unnoticed by other Americans due to its control of the media, but is
apparent to some Israeli Jews. As long as organized US Jewry remained
united, its control over the media and its political power remained
unchallenged. (Israel Shahak, Open Secrets: Israeli Nuclear and
Foreign Policies, Pluto Press, London and Chicago, 1997, p. 139).
CBS News Does Not Investigate Itself. Although an admission from 60 Minutes seems
imminent that its story of The Mule was fraudulent, CBS did not discover this fraud,
and is not undertaking any investigation of its own. Rather, there appear to be a
"series of investigations," possibly all British, including one by Carlton Television
which originally financed and broadcast the documentary, and including a study by the
British government. One may hypothesize, then, that CBS does not place high priority
on the acknowledgement and correction of its own errors, and that it will do so only
when forced to by public disclosure of these errors by some other agency. For this
reason, the acknowledgement by 60 Minutes that its story The Mule was entirely
fraudulent cannot be taken as offering hope that CBS is any closer to acknowledging
that its story The Ugly Face of Freedom was entirely fraudulent.
American Competence Gap? Mention has often been made in the Ukrainian Archive
of the existence of competence gaps as these relate to brain drains and gains. The
observation of a startling degree of credulity in the highest levels of the American
Press constitutes one such competence gap, although in this case it is not a gap that
leads to any brain theft from other nations, as the gap is largely hidden from the
American public. Perhaps the American public has its own competence gap - one in which
the people watching the news are as blind to incongruities as the people who are
broadcasting it.
Below are excerpts only. The complete Washington Post article is purchasable online
from the Washington Post by anyone who cares to first set up an account with the
Washington Post.
Acclaimed Expose Questioned as Hoax
British Drug Documentary Was Featured on "60 Minutes"
By T.R. Reid
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, May 9, 1998; Page A01
LONDON, May 8 - That powerful expose on "60 Minutes" last summer about Colombian drug
runners was [...] quite possibly, false.
After a lengthy investigation, London's Guardian newspaper has charged that the
award-winning documentary "The Connection" [...] was essentially fiction.
The program featured dramatic footage of a drug "mule" said to be smuggling several
million dollars' worth of heroin to London for Colombia's Cali drug cartel. The
Guardian reported, though, that the "mule" actually carried no drugs, that his trip to
London was paid for by the documentary's producers, and that many of the report's
dramatic moments were faked.
[...]
When the report was shown on "60 Minutes," CBS reporter Steve Kroft said that the mule
had "no problem" slipping past British customs with the heroin in his stomach.
"Another pound of heroin was on the British streets," the "60 Minutes" report said.
But the Guardian, which says it found the "mule," reports that he actually swallowed
Certs mints, not drugs. It says the flight to London took place six months later, and
was paid for by the filmmaker. And it says the "mule" was actually turned back at
Heathrow because he had a counterfeit passport, and thus never entered Britain.
[...]
The documentary included a highly dramatized segment in which reporters under armed
guard were taken to a remote location for an interview with a figure described as a
high-ranking member of the Cali drug cartel. "60 Minutes" reported de Beaufort had to
travel blindfolded for two days by car to reach the scene of this secret rendezvous.
The Guardian [...] said the secret location was actually the producer's hotel room in
Colombia.
[...]
The British government's watchdog group, the Independent Television Commission, has
launched a study of its own. Unlike the United States, where government has no power
to police the content of news reporting, there are official regulations here requiring
that TV news demonstrate "a respect for truth."
CBS has not undertaken an investigation of its own, but will report to its viewers on
the results of the British investigations [...].
HOME DISINFORMATION 60 MINUTES 1254 hits since 20Oct98
Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Sep 1998 Old Liars, young liar
Trouble was, he made things up - sources, quotes, whole stories - in a
breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern
journalism.
The topic of lying in the media is of central importance on the Ukrainian Archive
because of the frequency with which the media uses the opportunity of reporting on
the Slavic world in general, and on Ukraine in particular, to instead calumniate
them. Three prominent examples are Jerzy Kosinski's career as Jewish-Holocaust
fabulist and Grand Calumniator of Poland, TIME magazine's wallowing girl photograph
of 22Feb93, and Morley Safer's 60 Minutes story The Ugly Face of Freedom, broadcast
over the CBS network on 23Oct94.
From such examples as the above, however, it is difficult to estimate the prevalence
of misinformation and disinformation in the media. It may be the case that
distortion and calumniation are limited to a few topics such as the Slavic world or
Ukraine, and that otherwise the media are responsible, professional, and accurate.
The value of studying the case of Stephen Glass, however, is that it suggests
otherwise - that perhaps the media operate under next to no oversight, that they are
rarely held accountable, and that only egregious lying over a protracted interval
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