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Folio's Simon Dumenco argues that Jayson Blair is a product of the magazine world because the glossies specialize in producing rock-star reporters and the newspaper editors (NYT editor Howell Raines especially) are trying to inject similar elements"drama! glamour! style! narrative!"into their tired old broadsheets. He also points out that magazines Jayson Blair the facts all the time in the name of service journalism. ("Busybodies who dream up "trend pieces" [more and more women are dating younger guys! more and more women are dating older guys!], commission writers to prove their suppositions, and then mangle the copy that's been turned in to slavishly reflect the "reality" that was divined in the original assignment memo.) Women's magazines are the worst. I'd do a more specific critique, but that would require actually having to read them, and I just can't bring myself.
Frankenblair: son of the glossies [Folio]