Sick of the Jayson Blair mediawhore parade? Well it's just going to escalate until this Sunday, when the NYT Book Review publishes Jack Shafer's two-page review of Blair's Burning Down My Master's House. According to Slate's Shafer, the book is "shoddily-written" and "filibustering," and Blair spends most of it making the excuse that the Times drove him mad. Shafer rips apart this claim, which is pretty easy, given the fact that Blair lied and stole at the Boston Globe before he worked at the NYT. Shafer gets in a few other weird digs too: "The Times is a flawed, human institution that deserves every brick tossed at it except this one." Wait, we get to toss deserved bricks at the Times now? Sweeeeet.
Related: Blair Book: Short on Apologies, Long on Blame [Editor & Publisher]
The Jayson Blair Project [Slate, May 8, 2003]