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Article: Newspapers Ponder Amount of Press to Give to Jayson Blair Book.
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- Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
- Article date:
- March 4, 2004
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Byline: Liz Halloran
Mar. 4--As Jayson Blair begins his book-selling blitz Friday with the first of a string of high-profile television appearances, newspapers are weighing how much ink to spill on the former New York Times reporter whose serial plagiarism and fabrication triggered a massive journalism scandal last year.
"This presents something of a conundrum," said Eric Gibson, the Wall Street Journal's leisure and arts features editor. "On the one hand, you don't want to give somebody like that any more free publicity and implicitly thereby credit them or honor them.
"On the other hand," Gibson said, "it's news."
Blair, whose new ...