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On Sunday, the New York Times ran more than four full pages purporting to document and atone for the Blair frauds. Blair’s reporting from the home front during the Iraq War should earn him an award from the Sierra Club: conserving resources, it was constructed by zealous recycling of other reporters’ stories, fictitiously filed from far-flung datelines across the country while Blair was sipping lattes in Brooklyn. Equally fabricated was a front-page story claiming that investigators had evidence fingering Lee Boyd Malvo as the shooter in the sniper killings. Blair concocted out of thin air an incendiary story of prosecutorial blundering in the interrogation of D.C. metropolitan area last fall and the war in Iraq. His most spectacular frauds occurred during two of the most important stories of the last year: the sniper shootings in the D.C. Reporter Jayson Blair blazed a trail of deceit through the Times’s news pages. But in denying that the Blair fiasco hinges on race, the Times has left itself open to a far more serious charge: that winking at journalistic blunders is standard Times practice. Faced with a growing scandal around the recently discovered fabrications and plagiarism of young Times reporter Jayson Blair, the Times is denying the most plausible reason why it kept handing Blair plum assignments despite clear evidence of his incompetence: Blair was black. The New York Times has made its choice: preserving the fictions around affirmative action is more important than shoring up its crumbling journalistic reputation.

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