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...Blair??s Labour Party was expected to lose 66 seats in Parliament, something analysts attributed to the weakening support for the Iraq War, which the Labour Party endorsed...
William S. Marshall, a research fellow at KSG’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and supporter of the Liberal Democrats Party, said he thought Blair??s expected victory would prove “problematic” for the United Kingdom...
Hard News is the story of the Jayson Blair affair at The New York Times in the spring of 2003 and its crippling effect on the nation’s most well-respected newspaper. Blair??under the tutelage of top editors Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd, who were ousted from the paper in the scandal’s wake—fictionalized large segments of many stories, including those on the front page; he often didn’t even visit locations, culling colorful details about locations from others’ articles...
...high profile stories, including the Washington D.C. sniper case of late 2002. In this, one of the most important stories of his career, Blair attributed to numerous “anonymous” sources claims that were later refuted by law enforcement officials. In a less high-profile case, Blair??s colorful details eventually did him in, when a reporter from a regional newspaper noticed that Blair??s quotations about the home of the mother of a missing soldier in Iraq followed her own almost exactly...
Mnookin recounts in Hard News his casual acquaintance with Jayson Blair prior to the news of Blair??s downfall at the Times became public, the result of their mutual struggle with addiction. “I had heard that he was struggling to stay sober, and I was sympathetic; I had stopped using drugs and alcohol six years before, when I was in my mid-twenties,” he recounts in the book...