Archive of Jayson Blair’s Work
Jayson Blair is a former New York Times and Boston Globe reporter who lost his job because editors determined he plagiarized and fabricated some of his work. The New York Times has released some kind of archive of his work. Unfortunately, it crashes both of the browsers I use, so I can’t get to it from this computer to see what it is. Maybe you’ll have better luck if you aren’t using a Mac running Internet Explorer 5 or Netscape 4.x.
from this week’s edition of the Librarian’s Index to the Internet New This Week (I can’t find an archive of this feature, so if you look at it next week, it will probably be different.)
Addendum 3/19: The page is a list of Blair’s articles dating back to 1998, some of which have annotations about what NYT editors and researchers found wrong with them.
How ironic that today, the NYT reports about a former USA Today journalist who supposedly fabricated portions of his articles. A team of reporters and editors examining 720 articles between 1993 and 2003 found at least 8 major stories with problems and portions of articles that had been plagiarized from other sources. (To the NYT’s credit, they do mention Jayson Blair’s problems in passing.) The USA Today article about the situation has details about how they’re reviewing his work.
I think a pop-up ad may have been crashing my other browsers. It’s ironic to think that a Web site might do usability testing of their content but forget to make sure their ads are readable. What good is an ad if it crashes someone’s browser and they never get to see it?
