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Howell Raines, executive editor of the New York Times, has sought to mollify employees enraged by the Jayson Blair scandal, promising to ease journalist workloads by adding 20 staff and appointing a committee to investigate and improve newsroom practices. The committee, comprised of 22 Times writers and editors and three outsiders, met for four hours on Friday and is expected to issue a report to Mr Raines, publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr and other leading executives in early July. In addition to printing a May 11 article documenting the journalistic fraud committed by Mr Blair, a 27-year-old who was repeatedly promoted...

<p>The Jayson Blair scandal has most of the elements of the modern American classic. There's a celebrity angle, a race dimension, a drug and alcohol excuse, and hypocrisy in high places. The only missing element so far is sex. No doubt when the TV movie of the story is done, it will add a curvaceous girlfriend to round out the plot.</p>

<p>It was the summer of 1997, and Jayson T. Blair was at the center of a newsroom controversy.</p> <p>Blair, then 21, was sitting in the glass-walled office of assistant managing editor Louisa Williams. The door was closed. Just six weeks into a 12-week summer internship, Blair had already cut a considerable swath through The Boston Globe. In some respects, he was exactly what editors look for in a reporter: nervy, enterprising, prolific, eager to arrive early and stay late.</p>

<p>EVEN IN THIS age of global crises, wars, and terrorist threats, social issues in America, particularly those related to divisions along the lines of race, gender, and other group identities, are never too far from the surface. Claims and counterclaims fly back and forth -- of discrimination and prejudice on one side, of political correctness and a culture of victimhood on the other. Race is a particularly explosive subject: It has to do, after all, with America's original sin, an indelible stain on the history of a country dedicated to the ideals of freedom and equality.</p>

  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/910382/posts NYT propaganda and the sniper trial [Washington times wasn't fooled by Jayson Blair's lies]Washington Times ^ | November 6, 2002 | House Editorial...another documented example of a creative er liar for the Ny Slimes, a year ago. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/640122/posts     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/910372/posts The (alleged) 'newspaper of record': The New York Times growing blizzard of errorsWorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, May 13, 2003 | Les KinsolvingThe NYT hired Blair without a degree. Oh my, that diversity thing really rocks the Left-- UM launches own probe of ex-reporter's work     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/910337/posts Race seen as factor in reporting scandal [Re: Fake "journalist"...

The gal pal of New York Times plagiarist Jayson Blair says she disagrees with the "offensive statements he's been making" - and only recently figured out that the scandal has ruined her credibility. "When Jayson was caught, it came as a big shock and betrayal to the world as well as to me," Zuza Glowacka writes in the current issue of Newsweek. Glowacka, 23, resigned from her job as a Times news clerk after Blair was caught plagiarizing and fabricating stories. He was forced to resign from the paper, which has been thrown into turmoil by the scandal. Since her...

Insight on the News - Fair Comment Issue: 06/10/03 Fair Comment This White Girl Should Be So Lucky as Times' Jayson BlairBy Julia Gorin Good for Jayson Blair. He milked the New York Times' good intentions for all they were worth. It amounted to four years which, in the Times' union-inflated salary scale, probably comes out to 20 years of income somewhere else. He should be able to retire. In addition to consistent problems with accuracy, tardiness and extended unavailability, the Times' internal investigation of the 27-year-old former reporter found that "he fabricated comments. He concocted scenes. He lifted material...

Jayson Blair, the disgraced New York Times reporter caught plagiarizing and fabricating numerous stories and quotes for the famous paper, recently gave his first post-scandal interview. In a discussion with the New York Observer, Blair explained his bad behavior at the Times and gave some insight into his personal and professional motivations. He also managed, over the course of the interview, to display an amazing public relations acumen that lends itself, quite naturally, to a series of helpful public relations tips, which are sure to come in handy the next time you find yourself caught in a sticky situation or...

<p>He Stole a Lot More Than My Words By Macarena Hernandez, Macarena Hernandez is a reporter for the San Antonio Express-News. SAN ANTONIO — One of the last stories Jayson Blair wrote before being unmasked as a liar and plagiarist contained these words: "Juanita Anguiano points proudly to the pinstriped couches, the tennis bracelet in its red case and the Martha Stewart furniture out on the patio. She proudly points up to the ceiling fan."</p>

o, at any rate, I have always believed. The Jayson Blair flap at the New York Times therefore left me neither shaken nor stirred. What do you expect from newspaper hacks? What surprised me about the whole thing was not that a smooth-talking charlatan should have risen so high in the Times's reporting hierarchy, but that so many of my fellow citizens apparently take the Times as absurdly seriously as it takes itself. The journalists-are-scum assumption has a long pedigree in the land of my birth. It is almost as if, since show business became respectable, British journalists have inherited...

It should be payback time for the New York Times' inflicting its deceitful liberal pretentiousness upon America. Here's a suggestion for a conservative law firm such as the Landmark Legal Foundation or the Washington Legal Foundation: With one or more disgruntled subscribers, initiate a class-action suit against the New York Times for willful negligence regarding Jayson Blair’s journalistic inventions. Blair wrote at least 60 such stories. There is abundant evidence that Blair’s editors were negligent in detecting or acting upon his fraudulent behavior. The suit should therefore demand that a pro-rated refund be paid to all New York Times subscribers...

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Anger made him do it, Jayson Blair claims in a rage-filled book proposal hawking the tale of his downfall at The New York Times. Hoping to cash in on his newfound infamy, Blair proposes to write a book titled "Burning Down My Master's House," in which he admits to alcohol and drug addiction but accuses The Times of racism. He also vows to expose the newspaper's "darkest secrets," including "an editor caught sleeping with his intern" and "cocaine parties on the fifth floor of the newsroom," according to his eight-page proposal, a copy of which was obtained by the Daily...

<p>For reporters, the ultimate nightmare is the source who lies. Journalists spend a good deal of their working lives figuring out ways to test the credibility of the people who give them information without alienating them. I encountered this challenge recently when I wrote a book about a stockbroker who was, by his own admission, a skillful and effective liar (see BW Online, 5/19/03, "Using Truth to Corner a Scamster"). His name was Louis Pasciuto, and in my book Born to Steal, I described how much he enjoyed lying. He made a career out of it. He reveled in it. He enjoyed it!</p>

ALL THE LIES FIT TO PRINT Ex-N.Y. Times scribe likens self to Malvo Jayson Blair rages at newspaper he calls 'my slavemaster' Posted: May 24, 20036:19 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com In a racially charged book proposal titled ''Burning Down My Master's House,'' disgraced former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair likens himself to Lee Boyd Malvo, the alleged triggerman in some of the D.C.-area sniper murders, and hurls unsubstantiated charges of racism at the paper he calls ''my tormentor, my other drug, my slavemaster,'' according to a report by Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post. In the book proposal, read...

<p>May 24, 2003 -- The New York Times has suspended Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg - sending new shock waves through a newsroom already reeling from the Jayson Blair scandal, sources told The Post. The action came yesterday - the same day the paper ran an "editor's note" regarding a front-page story on the lives of Florida oystermen that ran last June 15 with an Apalachicola, Fla., dateline under Bragg's byline. The Times said a reader questioned where the reporting took place, prompting it to review the material.</p>

<p>The New York Times double-crossed Styles section writer Alex Kuczynski this week by leaking word that the sexy journalist had quietly resigned - without noting her departure was merely temporary.</p> <p>"Alex told the Times a year ago when she signed her book deal with Doubleday that she would take a six-month book leave," a source explains.</p>

An ethics scandal, a management fiasco--and a crisis of confidence in American journalism The Gray Lady is limping. In the wake of New York Times reporter Jayson Blair's resignation earlier this month under charges of plagiarism and fabrication, problems at the nation's newspaper of record just keep piling higher. An unprecedented front-page, 13,900-word opus in the paper's May 11 Sunday edition excoriated Blair's sustained fraud, calling his plagiarism, faked quotes, and false datelines a "low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper." Then, a full-staff meeting to discuss the debacle--over 500 Times employees squeezed into a midtown Manhattan...