I read the entire article, and the above is the one sentence that really stuck with me. Read it again...
``There has never been a systematic effort to lie and cheat as a reporter at The New York Times comparable to what Jayson Blair seems to have done.''
That's telling, IMO.
By golly, you've got a point.
``There has never been a systematic effort to lie and cheat as a reporter at The New York Times comparable to what Jayson Blair seems to have done.''
That statement does kind of beg the question, doesn't it...???
Blair exceeded who? Just how comparable were they...???