Jason Blair

Reading about Jason Blair is very disturbing for me because plagiarism and deceit are against everything journalists strive for. I really don’t understand how someone can fabricate so many stories, especially when the stories deal with very emotional and personal issues.
The story about the marine, Corporal Kingel, was very disturbing to me because this man just suffered from an injury in Iraq and Jason Blair lied about visiting him in the hospital and created an entire scene and story that did not exist. Blair even made up a false quote that was featured as the quotation of the day.
What I don’t understand is how Blair stayed undetected for so long. Jason Blair was a huge scandal for the New York Times because Jason Blair was deceiving them for almost four years. Although the Times suffered due to this scandal, they finally put a stop to it. Though it may be hard for readers to trust the newspaper now, I feel that the Times has learned from their mistake and is still a trusting source for news.