Saturday, May 10, 2003

Latest Embarrassment to the Fourth Estate

Why, it's Mr. Jayson Blair, late of the New Yawk Times.

Read about his unfortunate tendency to fabricate sources, quotes and other such bits of journalism most common folks assume to be -- ha ha! -- true.

Howard Kurtz lays out the basics.

Slate ponders the issue.

And a Times managing editor weighs in.

(Thanks to Romenesko for a couple of these.)