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Okrent came to the Times in late 2003, in the wake of the scandal that began with a slew of fabrications by reporter Jayson Blair and culminated with change atop the newspaper’s masthead and an experiment with the ombudsman-like position of public editor...
...that memoirist Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and Cherry, is adamant about. "This is not rocket science," she says. "This is not like sexing a chicken. Is it fiction, is it nonfiction? I think the entire book is horse dookie. This guy has done for memoirs what Jayson Blair [the New York Times reporter who fabricated interviews] did for reporters. What would it have cost him to stick a label of fiction...
...comment with any kind of knowledge, but I would say that the decision that I made clearly was guided by the environment in which we are operating today. I think that environment is much more constrained in terms of the latitude we give ourselves in our behavior - post-Jayson Blair. Maybe that's the line of demarcation.? It's a new era in journalism, he says, and people reporting the news have to be above reproach when it comes to dealing with their sources...
...reporter resigned last month from USA Today after it was discovered that he had lifted quotes from another paper. You also had the Jack Kelley scandal last year, and the New York Times had Jayson Blair. There are other examples. Have journalistic ethics slipped, and what specifically...
...personnel go out of their way to make sure that the Holy Koran is treated with care." Newsweek wasn't the only media outlet feeling the heat. By inevitable extension, journalism in general was back under a shadow, its reputation already scuffed by a series of incidents, including the Jayson Blair debacle at the New York Times, the fall of Jack Kelley at USA Today, the dubious National Guard memos at CBS, Newsweek'suse of a doctored photo of Martha Stewart on its cover, and CNN and TIME's 1998 retraction of the "Tailwind" story that claimed...