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Article: The Jayson Blair and Norman Wallace Tragedies
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- Oakland Post
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- May 28, 2003
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Jackson, Bernice Powell
Oakland Post
05-28-2003
Two very different young black men. Both talented and articulate. Both at
the start of promising careers. Both who made headlines in the month of
May. The similarities end there.
Jayson Blair was the 27 year-old African American New York Times reporter
whose inaccurate and, in some cases, fabricated stories were characterized
by the Times itself as the low-point in the paper's 152 year history. In
mid-May the Times published a 7,000 word article detailing the mistakes
made by Blair and taking the blame for poor supervision and ineffective
editing of his articles. In the firestorm after the announcement, at least
one Times editor told of his warnings ...