Burning Down My Masters House: Life at the New York Times
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (643 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005ZOCF0Y |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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WARNING! KEEP AWAY FROM THE AUDIO VERSION!!!! Rock Quarry Holy Moley!! Blair is the narrator of the audio version of his book. He speaks in such a passionless, monotone voice that you run the risk of falling asleep while listening to it in your car. James Earl Jones he's not.. What Were Blair's NYT Editors Thinking? What were the New York Times editors thinking when they repeatedly - again and again - caught Jayson Blair in lies in and about his stories, and yet they gave him in-house "mentoring" and continued to pay him? It is incomprehensible to me that they allowed Blair to last more than the time it would have taken him to clear out his desk the *first* time they caught him in a lie.And the publishers of this book should be ashamed: to reward this knucklehead for serial lying that called into question the i. "Oh Please" according to Meme. All he had to do was explain was why he didn't just get on the damn plane and do his damn job. All the complicated crap he wasted time explaining are unnecessary at best, circumspect at worst.
Just as Blair appeared to be turning things around at The Times – getting clean and sober and being assigned to cover national affairs, including the Washington, D.C. . Before Blair was willing to admit that something was terribly wrong, he had spent eight months fabricating and plagiarizing por
Blair recounts in detail the events that led to his downfall as a journalist for "The New York Times," as well as his personal journey to make sense of the different pieces of the puzzle.
Throughout, he levels serious (albeit generally unsubstantiated) charges at the newspaper. All rights reserved. In a nod to the book's subtitle, Blair lavishes attention on his (presumably legitimate) coverage of numerous stories, especially of the D.C.-area sniper case, failing to realize that readers' interest will fade when he stops discussing the inner workings of the Times and the mechanisms and consequences of his lying. During his tenure at the New York Times (1998e padding though. Blair claims that Metro desk editor Jonathan Landman, who first cast doubts on his reporting, wrote in an internal note that "minority candidates for hiring were always sub-par compared to others." Then there's the bartering of news coverage for favors. One is rac