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When the New York Times discovered one of its reporters was falsifying stories, it immediately dismissed the reporter and set the record straight -- right? Not exactly, at least not in the case of Jayson Blair.
The Times published a lengthy, 7,200-word apology for Mr. Blair's inaccuracies on May 11th, 11 days after he resigned from the paper But in "Correcting the Record," the Times acknowledged, against interest, that its editors had been aware of Mr. Blair's inaccurate reporting for years but had failed to correct the problem. In short, the problem was not just a reporter deceiving the Times but the Times allowing the deception to continue.
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Source: HighBeam Research, The truth about the Blair affair. (From the Ministry of...