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Article: Disgraced reporter's book proposal lashes out at newspaper , Jayson Blair calls N.Y. Times his: 'slavemaster'
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- 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 teen-age 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 ...