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Article: Jayson Blair, R.I.P.; He came, he made his mess, and now he's gone.
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- Philadelphia Weekly
- Article date:
- March 23, 2004
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With any luck, Jayson Blair's 15 minutes of post-New York Times fame is just about up. Despite the massive publicity trumpeting the publication of Burning Down My Master's House, a tell-all of his fall from grace at America's paper of record, the book has met with relative indifference.
The only audience that seems to be buzzing about the book at all is the very journalism industry that was rocked last year when Blair resigned from the Times after being outed as a serial plagiarizer. Blair's misdeeds, which consisted of concocting articles about the Beltway snipers, Operation Iraqi Freedom vets and other high-profile beats, led to a 14,000-word NYT accounting of his fabrications, the ...