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Reader gossip about Jayson Blair, the NYT reporter who resigned after it was discovered that he fabricated story details:
· Between the linesthe thin, white lines: "Of course the true Jayson Blair story isn't really race and isn't really ethics. It's drugs. Dunno if you met him...but the poor guy had a fatal coke enthusiasm that clearly became a serious problem - the clear reason not only for the unexplained absences but also for the relentless deception, narcissistic fabulism, and so on. Bad of the Times not to spot and stop his journalistic excesses sooner. Worse not to spot and address the excesses that were the root cause."
· "I worked with Blair and i can tell you that his firing probably had nothing to do with his race. He was by far the most inept reporter I ever worked with. He came to my televisied event (with CEO's, politicos and VIPs) wearing jeans and a dirty sweatshirt. He lead us on for weeks after the event, promising to include a mention of us in a feature story he was working on and in the end he ran zilch. Eventually we just gave up on him."