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The NEWYORKOBSERVER will report tomorrow that Jayson Blair, the disgraced 27-year-old NEWYORKTIMES reporter, has prepared a five-page book proposal for a memoir that will focus largely how his race and substance abuse played a significant role in his downfall from the TIMES! [The question is: Did Blair write the treatment?] Joe Hagan of the Observer has obtained two (2) pages of this five-page proposal. Additionally, Sridhar Pappu of the Observer has conducted the only full-length interview with Mr. Blair yet in record. NYO's Sridhar Pappu conducted a spirited, two-hour sit-down interview with Jayson Blair and his friend and former Times...

Ex-Reporter Blair 'Couldn't Stop Laughing' At One DeceptionPOSTED: 9:25 p.m. EDT May 20, 2003NEW YORK -- Former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair said he "couldn't stop laughing" when the newspaper corrected his fraudulent description of an American POW's home in West Virginia, according to excerpts of an interview with the New York Observer. "That's my favorite, just because the description was so far off from the reality. And the way they described it in the Times story -- someone read a portion of it to me -- I couldn't stop laughing," Blair said in an interview scheduled for publication...