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Episode 23: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

America This Week

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What Happened to Jason Blair at the New York Times?

Jason Blair at the New York Times filed a fake story that said he was in one place when he was actually in New York. It took a while for them to take action, but they ended up doing an internal investigation. The same thing happened with Stephen Glass, it was less violent at Rolling Stone,. You know the story about the UVA case now, like in that case we brought in an outside series of investigators to do an audit of what happened. When something fake gets into the pages of a real news organization, that usually means there has to have been a systematic breakdown at a pretty high level.

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