Sridhar Pappu tells the Hartford Courant about his interview with Jayson Blair - the interview where Blair admits laughing at the Times mea culpa. Pappu got the interview by leaving messages at Blair's apartment; it's interesting that Blair, so far, has agreed to speak to only young writers, like Pappu and Newsweek's Seth Mnookin. Perhaps Blair's advisers realize that younger writers might have more empathy than older veterans. more ›

A nice kickback from the TriBeCa Film Festival is the American Express commercial with Martin Scorsese in it. As Jason Gay of the Observer succinctly describes it: more ›

Jason Gay calls captured Al Qaeda operative Khalid Shaikh Mohammed a "Ron Jeremy look-alike" in his Observer NYTV column. The Onion interview with Ron Jeremy is hysterical, but not as hysterical as Jason Gay.
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The Observer's Jason Gay finds out how Dan Rather "bagged" Saddam chat. The Texan has had a very long and storied career, but to a generation, he'll be the inspiration for an R.E.M song. Take the Dan Rather Simile Quiz on the Modern Humorist. Conservatives feel Dan Rather is Rather Biased.
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