This is the problem with the omission of articles such as "an" and "the" in newspaper headlines: I see "BLAIR BOOK PROPOSAL LASHES OUT AT PAPER" and I think, "What the hell does Jayson Blair have against a magazine that chronicles the goings and comings of the same 22 hipster trust fund babies and their fabulissimo careers as artist DJs in Williamsburg?" But I digress. It appears that Blair is lashing out at the NYT, to which he refers with all apparent seriousness as "my tormentor, my other drug, my slavemaster." (Now Jayson, don't get melodramatic.) Blair promises stories about parties with drugs and "one editor's affair with an intern." Parties with drugs? In Manhattan? Journalists were involved? An editor had an affair with an intern? This *yawn* will surely *yawn* destroy *yawn* the New York Times.
Blair book proposal lashes out at paper [WaPo]