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Saturday, February 28, 2004

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A Lot More Troubling Than Jayson Blair

is the story of how the New York Times, following shoddy investigative methods, repeatedly asserted the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that turned out not to be there. Reports by the nation's leading newspaper and one of the country's primary shapers of public opinion greatly strengthened the false impression that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that a preemptive war was fully justified.

Fabricating quotes is bad enough. Fabricating a causus belli is much much worse.

Nobody died as a result of Jayson Blair's misdeeds. But hundreds of American soldiers have been killed and thousands more wounded because of a war of choice that was sold as a war of necessity.

I've read and enjoyed-- and trusted-- the New York Times for many years. But the Times needs to take a long, hard look at itself for this one.



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