Gothamist: Jayson Blair in Jane

Graham Wellington

Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:05:18 -0500

That's what you get for affirmative action bullcrap!

Tovarich

Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:35:25 -0500

wow wow, those are some intelligent comments here. Seriously people, what's with all this hate ?

OperationIraqiOccupation

Mon, 12 Apr 2004 00:26:58 -0500

What a bunch of fucking heightist neanderthals! Why don't you boneheads and asswipes talk about him being a "nigger?"

isaisaisa

Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:57:05 -0500

Brotha got molaaadee, head biggathan body!

csandy

Sat, 06 Sep 2003 21:24:21 -0500

It's the little man syndrome - little man trying to be a big man.

ShinGo

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 21:40:58 -0500

And we can ask his girlfriend to play Gandalf. All she needs is a beard and a staff.

Jen

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 18:37:44 -0500

Oh, RIO, do it - do it for all of us - we need to see the Black Hobbit and then we can ask Jayson Blair if he'll play the Black Hobbit in the movie.

RIO

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 18:32:10 -0500

it's taking almost all my will power to 'not' create a Black Hobbit web cartoon.

hoofin

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:29:51 -0500

I forget the second. But there were two. Rick Bragg gets zilch compared to Jayson Blair in the pop culture today. When people talk about phony reporting, the joke is "just like Jayson Blair". Even Hornstine is letting it slip. She is quickly becoming "you know, the girl who wanted to be valedictorian and sued her school, so Harvard didn't want her!" They need a product niche for her, selling something and fast!

Todd

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 10:21:21 -0500

(Anyone remember the names of the two subsequent writers who took that route this year?) Um, Rick Bragg and ... Blair Hornstine?

hoofin

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 21:04:17 -0500

The Power of Public Relations Everything is TV and media spin. Celebrity. You make yourself out to be celebrity, anything goes. News meshes with entertainment (since both are on 24-7, at the flick of the remote.) It used to be that news was separated into a 30 minute offering at set times during the day, with "serious music" played at both the beginning and the end so you knew the TV was not messing around. Bland guys with names like Chet, Walter, etc. would read you what was going on in the world, in Standard English monotone (like an layreader in a church). That was your news. No peacock feather shadows floating counterclockwise over the guy's right shoulder, and flashing text on the bottom. You were lucky if there was a picture in the upper right-hand corner. Otherwise, you got your news on radio or you read it in a black-on-white newspaper that was not trying to imitate USA Today. So Blair comes along, and he's got this 21st century newsreporting down. You become a "virtual journalist" who creates a story that the readership can relate to. Then, once you burn your ass (by stealing other people's work and basically submitting a false timecard for your pay), you become a victim, then a celebrity. Is he right? (Anyone remember the names of the two subsequent writers who took that route this year?)

mark

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 17:18:58 -0500

that Gap Kids crackback has me laughing out loud. props.

Loui

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 17:06:51 -0500

What that pic doesn't show is that they're walking out of Gap Kids.

Jen

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 16:27:30 -0500

Black Hobbit...RIO, that's priceless!

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:44:02 -0500

Oh you all. Give Mr. Blair a break. Maybe his unidentified companion is just really tall.

RIO

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:39:08 -0500

No, she's not tall, dude is the missing (and often uncredited by Peter Jackson) Black Hobbitt of ancient lore. As a young black child growing up in manhattan, my mommy used to warn me to be good or the Black Hobbitt would come to get me. Now I know that she was indeed telling the truth. (*shiver*)

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:23:30 -0500

Oh you all. Give Mr. Blair a break. Maybe his unidentified companion is just really tall.

ryan p

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 14:33:55 -0500

C'mon peeps, get serious. The real issue is how freakin' short his arms are. Damn. He looks like Lego people.

Jen

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:44:01 -0500

Tall? She's probably 5'4"!

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:43:27 -0500

Forget about Blair, who's that tall fox he's with?

carni Val'

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:10:26 -0500

Is there a midget professional wrestling league? Oooooh! He's wearing lifts in his shoes -- the one person who appreciates that ass Dr. Scholl's ad, "Gellin' like a felon."

jake

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:07:56 -0500

jesus- i didn't realize he was a little person- i'm surprised that didn't come out sooner- seeing as midgets have such a rep for being evil.

eli

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:14:21 -0500

Is that Webster?

at203

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:11:23 -0500

He's tiny. I've seen him twice in Park Slope over the last month. He's about 5'3."

Glenn

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:07:59 -0500

Remember when fucking up actually killed your career? That was years ago, though, before repentance on a talk show or in a magazine became so common. Jimmy the Greek...that was the last guy who was blacklisted for fucking up. Boy did he disappear. And Kermit Washington, who 26 years ago punched Rudy Tomjanovich. Seriously blacklisted. If Latrell Sprewell or Jason Williams did that to somebody tomorrow they wouldn't even lose a shoe contract.

lorna

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:48:32 -0500

Yikes, he is short and what magazine in their right minds would hire HIM as a writer??!!

tien

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:42:47 -0500

his head to body size ratio also seems out of whack.

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:41:34 -0500

not only is he short, he has disproportionately short arms. a true sign of stunted character. ew.

harDCore

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:32:37 -0500

How can that little Napoleon become an editor at the NYT, meanwhile my sexy 6'3" ass can't even get any job interviews? fuck life. fuck midgets.

april

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:30:03 -0500

Now It explains it all. Short man syndrome!

Todd

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:27:47 -0500

Nearly Gary-Colman-short, really.

Brian

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:21:01 -0500

Wow... I had no idea he was so short! He's comically midgetatious!

kiri

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:20:34 -0500

What's amazing is how much the media and other outlets still carry on about and court Blair. Why do we continue to reward his idiocy? Sad.