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Article: Blair book proposal lashes at New York Times
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 25, 2003
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Blair book proposal lashes at New York Times
Ex-reporter accuses paper of racism, likens self to sniper suspect
By HOWARD KURTZ Washington Post
Sunday, May 25, 2003
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 slave master."
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, accused as the triggerman in some of the
Washington-area sniper shootings last fall: "The moment I began to
see parallels ...