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Article: JAYSON BLAIR
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 19, 2003
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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 ...