Book offers scarce for NY Times reporter

Reuters | 5/24/03 | Steve James and Siobhan Kennedy

[hole_n_one]

Book offers scarce for NY Times reporter

This seems appropriate.

[goldstategop]

I mean who wants to read about a con artist? Tall tales will only go so far, LOL.

[Qwerty]

So first he makes his living as a liar, now he wants to make money trashing everyone he knows. Nice guy.

[goldstategop]

Trashing every one who helped him get a leg up. This guy is full of himself. If I were a girl I wouldn't be impressed that he wants to be the center of all the attention and there's one name that comes to mind with a guy like Jayson Blair - jerk. Oh and you can add total loser to that list.

[RichInOC]

Hmmm...that's a surprise. If he ever gets a book out it'll probably make a good bit of money.

On the other hand...would you want to be responsible for fact-checking that joker?

[Qwerty]

At least he's getting what he had coming to him.. nothing.

[goldstategop]

If I were a book publisher? Uhhh, remember the "fact checking" they did on that so called expose bio of President Bush by a former con? Yeah St. Martin's exposed itself to one nasty lawsuit. Blair is better off writing what he does - entertaining fiction. There's gotta be a market for it.

[kattracks]

Blair is better off writing what he does - entertaining fiction. There's gotta be a market for it.

There must be, look at the big bucks they're paying Blewmenthall and the clintons for their works of fiction.

[Timesink]

Schadenfreude

This is the New York Times Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.

[martin_fierro]

He added a small right-wing publisher could be interested for political reasons, to denigrate the liberal-leaning Times.

I wonder if that's a reference to Regnery Publishing.

[Grampa Dave]

Under what category would Regnery Publishing publish any book written by Jayson Blair?

[reg45]

Why? There is always a market for talented FICTION writers.

[Vetnet]

This just in:
THE NEW YORK TIMES has found a replacement that guarantees to bring them to an EVEN HIGHER LEVEL OF EXCELLENCE than they were known for, before all this trouble occurred:

"YES SIR MR RAINES, I'LL GET RIGHT ON IT!!!"

[sweetliberty]

"Under what category would Regnery Publishing publish any book written by Jayson Blair?"

[Ciexyz]

I wonder if he's had offers to appear on the cable news channels, for free of course, and whether he's turned them down.

[RightWhale]

Book publishers have yet to besiege Jayson Blair with the million-dollar offers

Who needs another fiction writer when there is Stephen King and Dean Koontz doing the job quite well already?

[MinuteGal]

The big publishing houses will freeze Blair out. One sentence above tells it all:

"The major publishers may shy away from offending the Times on whom they depend for reviews and advertising."

The NY city elites all scratch each other's backs and band together when the shi-ites hit the fan. It's forever about money...... all the rest is beanbag.

Leni

[Newbomb Turk]

He could write Hillary Clintons new book. It will be a pack of lies anyway so he might as well sign on.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the post and the ping. This is a keeper!