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Article: IN MY OPINION; The Jayson Blair Scandal; A Tale of Two Compulsions
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- Washington Informer
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- June 11, 2003
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Daniels, Lee A.
Washington Informer
06-11-2003
For anyone who honestly believes that race is no longer a significant
factor in the discourse about American life, the Jayson Blair scandal
provides a much-needed education.
In the past two weeks Blair, a young African-American reporter for the New
York Times who was once considered a rising star there, has been shown to
be a deceiver of very high, or rather, low, order.
And, as the full extent of Blair's deception has become clearer and the
story has mushroomed in the media, the discussion of it has come to be
starkly framed in racial terms.
"Whether or not this is a scandal born of ambition, it is also being cast
as a story about race," Time ...