That same month, it was revealed that a young reporter named Jayson Blair had been fabricating news articles.

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Now perhaps this article is the biggest pile of polar bear poop since the New York Times trusted Jayson Blair to get his facts straight.

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Last year, Howell Raines, then editor of the New York Times, eventually fell on his sword in the wake of a similar scandal involving his own star reporter, Jayson Blair.

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