Jay Carney
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Jay Carney is Washington Bureau Chief for Time Magazine. He has held the post since September 2005.
[edit] Biography
Carney was Time's Deputy Washington Bureau Chief from 2003-2005. He was assigned to the magazine’s Washington Bureau in that tenure while also being able to write about politics and national affairs. Carney has covered politics and national and foreign affairs for TIME since 1993. He also served as a TIME White House correspondent (now Mike Allen's job).
Carney joined TIME in 1988. He has written and reported about the Bush presidency. Carney is also notable because he was one of a handful of reporters who was aboard Air Force One with President Bush on Sept. 11, 2001. Carney later won the 2003 Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency.
Before coming to Washington in 1993 to report on the Bill Clinton White House, Carney worked as a correspondent in TIME's Moscow Bureau for three years, covering the collapse of the Soviet Union. Before that he was TIME's Miami bureau chief.
Carney has also worked for CNN (another TIME Warner division) as a special correspondent. Carney is from Virginia and earned a B.A. in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Yale University in 1987. He and his wife Claire Shipman (a senior correspondent for ABC News), live in Washington, DC, with their son and daughter.[1]
[edit] January 2007 Swampland Controversy
On January 23, 2007, Carney wrote in the Time.com Swampland group blog,
"In late 1994 and early 1995, President Clinton was in free fall. His aides despaired. They worried he might never recover from the shellacking the Democrats took in the 1994 mid-term elections. His approval ratings were mired in the 30's, and seemed unlikely to rise. When Clinton delivered his State of the Union address in January 1995, his first with Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole seated behind him as Speaker and Senate Majority Leader, he looked out at an audience of Democrats who blamed him for losing their majorities and of Republicans who were already convinced he would be a one-term president.[2]"
In fact, Clinton's approval ratings had reached 37% in 1993, but by 1994 and 1995 they had risen into the 40s and 50s[3]. Also, Vice President Al Gore not Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole was seated behind President Clinton. These innacuracies caused hundreds of blog commenters to demand a correction. In a subsequent post, Carney wrote that the commenters' reactions about non-factual matters, "proves nothing but that the left is as full of unthinking Ditto-heads as Limbaugh-land."[4] This caused a blogswarm of comments and posts in other blogs. The two Swampland posts, taken together, had received over 900 comments by the end of the day.
[edit] References
- ^ Biography, TIME.com
- ^ The Clinton Playbook, TIME.com Swampland Blog
- ^ Clinton Approval, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
- ^ RE: The Clinton Playbook, TIME.com Swampland Blog
