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'Shattered Wing'? Jayson Blair Returns With Bipolar Magazine Column
Folio Magazine ^
| April 28, 2005
| Dylan Stableford
Posted on 04/30/2005 2:57:48 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
Jayson Blair, the disgraced New York Times reporter implicated in a plagiarism scandal the paper called a low point" in its 152-year history, has turned up with a first-person column in the spring issue of bp, a magazine chronicling bipolar disorder.
In it, Blair gives his account of being diagnosed as bipolara recovery that includes medication and speaking engagementsas well as his take on the May 11, 2003 7,000-word above-the-fold, front page story (accompanied by a 6,400-word litany of corrections). Blair writes: As a team of Times reporters and researchers dug into my background pulling together loose threads for (the article), I was sitting in Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut following a suicide attempt only years earlier I would have thought unimaginable.
Blair says the disorder, combined with trying to accomplish my job while I was sick without letting anyone know (what) was wrong with me, led to the dangerous territory of maniahigh risk behavior in the form of fabricating and plagiarizing stories.
(Excerpt) Read more at foliomag.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bipolar; disorders; jaysonblair; mentalillness; nyt
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To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:01:20 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
("Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. "--Aeschylus)
To: MisterRepublican
Talks out of both sides of mouth. Sloppy liar too.
3
posted on
04/30/2005 3:05:07 AM PDT
by
Waco
To: MisterRepublican
Is this the Rather" disease? Or is it the disease Rather' will now discover he has? Bill, Hillary, Sheets?
4
posted on
04/30/2005 3:06:57 AM PDT
by
Waco
To: MisterRepublican
Talks out of both sides of mouth. Sloppy liar too.
5
posted on
04/30/2005 3:07:19 AM PDT
by
Waco
To: Pan_Yans Wife
Jayson is an indoctrinated liar and plagiarist (MA-Boston Globe, PhD-New York Times)
For him to blame people who are really ill for his own brand of lying and plagiarism
is ...... sick.
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:11:54 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
("If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us")
To: MisterRepublican
What's next for Blair? A professors job with The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University or Media Director for the DNC?
To: MisterRepublican
OK, so he's bipolar.
Governor MvGreevey announced that he was a "gay American", but that's not why he is no longer a Governor.
Nice try, Blair, you pathelogical liar.
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:13:58 AM PDT
by
A Balrog of Morgoth
(With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the Rats in terror before me.)
To: MisterRepublican; All
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:16:31 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: MisterRepublican
I was sitting in Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut following a suicide attempt only years earlier I would have thought unimaginable.
Or he was sitting in his bathtub in Manhattan, thinking up this tall tale. For all we know, he's never been to New Canaan. Not that an incovenience like that would keep him from writing a story about it.
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:17:55 AM PDT
by
A Balrog of Morgoth
(With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the Rats in terror before me.)
To: MisterRepublican
oh, boo-hoo. cry me a river, Jaysun
11
posted on
04/30/2005 3:24:28 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
To: A Balrog of Morgoth
12
posted on
04/30/2005 3:25:08 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
To: MisterRepublican
Oh please!....take your bi-polar excuse and shove it!
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:28:38 AM PDT
by
Route101
To: MisterRepublican
Oh please!....take your bipolar excuse and shove it!
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:29:03 AM PDT
by
Route101
To: King Prout
Thanks. I try to be a good little FReeper when I'm here.
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:38:40 AM PDT
by
A Balrog of Morgoth
(With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the Rats in terror before me.)
To: A Balrog of Morgoth
16
posted on
04/30/2005 3:41:03 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
To: Route101
posted once to nail his up
and again to nail his down?
;)
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:41:48 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
To: King Prout
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:53:42 AM PDT
by
Route101
To: Route101
as I thought...as I thought...
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posted on
04/30/2005 4:02:42 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
To: MisterRepublican
Michael Savage is right when he says liberalism is a mental disorder.
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posted on
04/30/2005 4:02:55 AM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
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