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Article: Blair Book Proposal Lashes Out at Paper [ Corrected: 07/09/03 ]
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- The Washington Post
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- May 24, 2003
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In a racially charged book proposal bristling with anger at the
New York Times, Jayson Blair likens himself to teenage sniper suspect
Lee Boyd Malvo and rages at the newspaper he calls "my tormentor, my
other drug, my slavemaster."
The proposed book, which some literary agents say could bring the
disgraced former reporter a six-figure advance, is titled "Burning
Down My Master's House."
Blair says of Malvo, the alleged triggerman in some of the
Washington-area sniper murders last fall: "The moment I began to see
parallels between his life and mine was the moment things began
falling apart." He writes of "how the frustrations of black men in
this world can explode, crescendo into a huge rage ...