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Former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair’s fabricated coverage inspired widespread outcry from the public and major restructuring within many newspapers last year. Stephen Glass, whose fabulously creative—albeit false—inventions in The New Republic hardly changed the results of an election, created a frenzy within magazine journalism and had his story turned into a cautionary motion picture this year. Where is the rage at the media players who bypassed the democratic process to willfully eliminate a candidate and manipulate an election with coverage that was often misleading and sometimes downright inaccurate? Many...
...confrontation two years ago between former professor Cornel R. West ’74 and Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers that drew national attention for its racial dimensions. Mitchell arrives here from a newspaper that has suffered its own public scandals of late. When the young black reporter Jayson Blair was fired last year from the Times for fraud and plagiarism, it led not only to the resignation of the paper’s two top editors, but to outside accusations that Blair was affirmative action’s cautionary tale...
Journalist Ken Auletta sounded off on the Dean Scream, Jayson Blair, and other issues facing the American media in a talk yesterday at the Harvard Book Store...
...fact, like Joe's enormous fortune, was subsequently revealed as phony. Except we all are the producers and viewers of this particular reality. And like watching reality shows, we have adjusted our vision to the new twists and turns of fact and fiction. The most astonishing aspect of the Jayson Blair scandal, after all, was that many people who had appeared in Blair's fictitious accounts didn't complain about the inaccuracies because they didn't expect any better from the press. Their skepticism was so deep it saved them from disillusion. Like Frodo, they knew what they didn...
...fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism." JAYSON BLAIR, former New York Times reporter, who resigned from the newspaper after numerous mistakes and fabrications were discovered in his stories...