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Tag: Jayson Blair

May 19, 2003September 15, 2009

The Times deceiver’s many enablers

May 19, 2003 I once fired a reporter for making things up. I didn’t know for a long time what he was doing. The quotes he concocted made his sources sound insightful, so nobody complained. I found out only when another reporter told me about complimenting somebody over comments in the first reporter’s story. It […]

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