WATCHING JAYSON BLAIR

I just observed Jayson Blair casting aspersions on the ethics of Slate’s Jack Shafer and of the New York Times for assigning Shafer a review of Blair’s book. Blair was on Larry King. Yes, Blair is criticizing other people’s ethics. He has the same syndrome as Stephen Glass. Saying you’re sorry does not mean you’re sorry, let alone taking responsibility. He hasn’t apologized to a single person he plagiarized; he hasn’t sent written apologies to his superiors. He is even claiming that he was sexually abused as a child but won’t name the perpetrator! Could that perpetrator still be abusing children? Has that occurred to Blair? Or is that made up as well? And toward the end of the fawning interview, Blair even tried to become a poster-child for mental health awareness. Give me a break. This charlatan is making money from this exercise in sociopathology. And the rest of the media – including Larry King – are helping him.