From the NY Times' Jayson Blair correction page: Blair steals quotes from another interview with the editor in chief of a media insider website. Said media insider website either doesn't pick up on it or ignores it. Here's a disturbing thought: Inside could have potentially broken the Jayson Blair story. "In this article about the declining fortunes of online magazines, Mr. Blair quoted Michael Hirschorn, then editor in chief of Inside.com, a Web site, since closed, for news media and entertainment industry professionals. Mr. Hirschorn said in a recent interview that although the quotations were accurate, they came from an interview conducted about five months earlier for an article with a different premise: on Internet companies that were working. That article never appeared. When approached by Mr. Blair in early March for another article, Mr. Hirschorn said, he declined to be interviewed, because by that point his company, like many other new-media firms, was struggling."
Jayson Blair corrections [NYT]