Posted on 06/27/2003 12:59:34 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:14:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
June 27, 2003 -- AUTHOR William McGowan - and not disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair - appears to be the first writer to cash on the scandal that won't die at the Paper of Wreckage.
McGowan has signed a deal for "slightly less than six figures" to write "Gray Lady Down: Jayson Blair and How the New York Times Broke Faith With America," said Peter Collier, publisher of San Francisco-based Encounter Books, which is publishing the title. Fallout from the Blair fabrication scandal - in which he made up stories and quotes, faked datelines and otherwise ran up a trail of mistakes and outright deceit on 100 stories over more than two years - caused Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd to resign on June 5.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Let's just put this in the "Another Useless Book of the Month Club" file.
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