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The scandal of Blair, an African-American, was suggested by some commentators to be a negative consequence of affirmative action; many believed that Blair's numerous promotions were solely based on his race.
Several months before his exposure and resignation in June 2003, Blair covered such high-profile cases as the Washington DC sniper, but there is no evidence that he went to Washington, DC to cover the case, nor did he go anywhere in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. Blair also claimed to have interviewed the parents of former Iraqi prisoner of war Jessica Lynch. The interview was later found to have been entirely falsified. Lynch's parents said that they never spoke to Blair and that he made references in his article to "nonexistent tobacco fields and cattle". [1]
The Times called the incident "a low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper" and has admitted to 36 instances of journalism fraud committed by Blair. Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd both resigned about a month after Blair over the scandal. In response to the scandal, the Times created the position of Public EditorPublic Editor is an editorial position established by The New York Times in response to the Jayson Blair scandal. The job of the Public Editor is to critique the practices, standards and culture of the newspaper, to identify and examine critical errors an, whose critiques of the paper's own reporters, techniques and culture are published twice every month.
Blair authored the book Burning Down My Masters' House : My Life at the New York Times (BooksEnthsiast.com), released on March 6March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). There are 298 days remaining. It is Keichitsu in the Japanese calendar. Events 1447 Nicholas V becomes Pope. 1460 Treaty of Alcacovas Portugal gives Castile the Canary Isl, 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co. Blair is an alumnus of the University of Maryland, College ParkThe University of Maryland, College Park (also known as College Park, UMCP, UMD, or U Maryland) is a public coeducational university situated in suburban Maryland outside Washington, DC. It is the flagship university of the University System of Maryland. but he never graduated or received a degree.
See also: Journalistic fraud, Stephen GlassStephen Glass was a reporter for The New Republic magazine during the late 1990s. When in 1998 it was discovered that he had committed several cases of journalistic fraud, the magazine fired Glass and his career in journalism came to an end. The story whi, Jack KelleyJack Kelley was a long-time USA Today correspondent and nominee for the Pulitzer Prize. In March 2004, it came out that he had long been fabricating stories, going so far as to write up scripts so associates could pretend to be sources. The scandal of Kel.