Article: JAYSON BLAIR

Kathleen Parker

JAYSON BLAIR

Scandal is indeed about race

By KATHLEEN PARKER Orlando Sentinel

Monday, May 19, 2003

As newspaper editors convened emergency denial-control meetings and minority journalists circled their wagons, New York Times executive editor Howell Raines went ahead and admitted what was obvious to anyone without a blankie over his head: Of course it's about race.

Howell was talking about The Times' failure to properly handle the now-infamous Jayson Blair affair, regarding the 27-year-old reporter who fabricated many of the front-page stories he penned during his nearly four-year Times career.

A Times in-house investigation revealed that Blair had faked datelines and ...

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