The AP (and Variety, in more detail) reported over the the weekend that Esquire canned the assignment they gave Jayson Blair to review "Shattered Glass," the new movie about his fellow fabulist, Stephen Glass. The Gothamista thinks Blair got shafted when they pulled the assigment. Blogger [and Entertainment Weekly founder] Jeff Jarvis thinks they shafted Blair by giving him the assignment. Here's another scenario: Esquire shafted themselves by being dumb enough to the movie's production company talk them into letting Blair write a review. [Another note: Variety also reports that Blair is "reportedly in the movie biz himself, shopping a treatment for adapting his saga for the screen."]
On second thought, no thanks Jayson [NY Daily News]
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