March 19, 2004
Jayson Blair Is Back
Blair had the nerve to correct preceived errors he felt Jack Shafer did when reviewed (Blair's book) Burning Down.
Shafer's response:
Allowing Jayson Blair to judge the ethics of a writer—or publication—is a little like green-lighting Josef Mengele* to lead a malpractice investigation of Marcus Welby.
Blair’s word have lost all meaning and have simple become sound bursting forth from his mouth in the same way feces burst forth from his anus.
er uh, simply.
If you just let a baby cry, they'll eventually stop. I'm just sayin'....
Am I the only one who initially read the headline as "Jayson Blair is Black"? Who would have thought such an obvious statement would be so surprising.
/me relies too much on his peripheral vision.
/me, too
I thought it said "Jayson Blair is a big lying-ass dickhead". I'll get these glasses fixed, I think.
Wait. He's not black?
The worst part, is he's getting PAID.
Social engineer is a skill. It nice to see someone getting paid for it. Especially after they've been busted.
meow meow!
It looks like USA Today has wrapped up their internal investigation of David Kelley.
Seven weeks into an examination of former USA TODAY reporter Jack Kelley’s work, a team of journalists has found strong evidence that Kelley fabricated substantial portions of at least eight major stories, lifted nearly two dozen quotes or other material from competing publications, lied in speeches he gave for the newspaper and conspired to mislead those investigating his work.
Perhaps Kelley’s most egregious misdeed occurred in 2000, when he used a snapshot he took of a Cuban hotel worker to authenticate a story he made up about a woman who died fleeing Cuba by boat. The woman in the photo neither fled by boat nor died, and a USA TODAY reporter located her this month. If Cuban authorities had learned she was the woman in the picture, she says, she could have lost her job and her chance to emigrate.
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