The Jayson Blair Case: At the New York Times, the Spin Cycle Never Ends

A Different Drummer ^ | 23 May 2003 | Nicholas Stix

[daddypatriot]

This well-written, informative and true piece of journalism should be run on the pages of the New York Times. Not a chance. Meanwhile, the Times continues to be the publication that someday will bring about the downfall of American journalism, the one thing that has kept us free people.

[mrustow]

If you liked that one, you ought to love this:

The Great Black Hope: The Jayson Blair Case and the New York Times

It shows how there was nothing fluky about Jayson Blair, how the Times' publisher, Pinch Sulzberger, organized the paper in a Blair-friendly fashion already in 1992, and shows how, rather than backing down, defenders of the faith (affirmative action) are taking the offensive.