The Morning News' Sarah Hepola talks about her friendship with Jayson Blair, lies told, and the tendency toward hyperbole: "The night we met, Jayson and I talked about liars. We were discussing a guy we both knew, a reporter who had changed his name after a series of early-career mistakes. 'I just think he's a liar,' I said. Jayson defended him, enumerated his good qualities. The truth is, the guy s all right, and I hardly knew him to begin with, but I was too emboldened by alcohol to back down. 'Once a liar, always a liar.'"
To tell you the truth [TMN]