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Article: The Jayson Blair scandal; A tale of two compulsions
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- New Pittsburgh Courier
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- May 17, 2003
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For anyone who honestly believes that race is no longer a significant factor in the discourse about American life, the Jayson Blair scandal provides a much-needed education.
In the past two weeks, Blair, a young African-American reporter for The New York Times, who was once considered a rising star there, has been shown to be a deceiver of very high, or rather, low order.
And, as the full extent of Blair's deception has become clearer and the story has mushroomed in the media, the discussion of it has come to be starkly framed in racial terms.
"Whether or not this is a scandal born of ambition, it is also being cast as a story about race," Time magazine's story this week declared. "As ...