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Gilbert MainesJayson Blair - I did not know about this. Now I feel so much more enlightened. A bombshell, a melodrama, a scandal, the shooting down of a rising star! All because of (the dreaded) copying. Come on, Santa smokes! Reportedly, a little girl saw smoke from his pipe encircling his head like a wreath. Or maybe it wasn't "reportedly". Maybe it really was written somewhere. In any case, sources say that children are routinely exposed to second hand smoke by a villan from the north. And worse - at Christmastime!
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The New York Times Thursday announced the resignations of its two top editors -- the latest bombshell in a journalistic melodrama since a rising star reporter was forced to resign for plagiarism.
Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd had been particularly criticized for their roles in the scandal surrounding the reporting of 27-year-old Jayson Blair, who quit the paper May 1.
Blair resigned after a Texas newspaper questioned whether he had plagiarized a story about the family of missing U.S. soldier Jessica Lynch ...