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A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times is a film of genre Documentary released in USA on 7 march 2014
A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times (2014)
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Add to a movie listA Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at The New York Times is a 2013 documentary film by director/producer Samantha Grant about Jayson Blair, a former journalist at The New York Times who was discovered copying the work of other reporters in 2003. The film explores Blair's rise as a promising young journalist and his decline into a spiral of lies, drugs, and mental illness. The documentary also explores how Blair's deception was handled by The Times' editorial staff and how many other media outlets covered the scandal as an issue as race, asserting that Blair's plagiarism was overlooked by superiors because he is African American.
A Fragile Trust had its film festival debut June 2013 at the Sheffield Doc/Fest in Sheffield, England.It premiered in the United States on April 11th, 2014, and screened at cities and universities across the U.S. and internationally. The film had its national theatrical release on April 11th, 2014 and its national PBS broadcast premiere on May 5th, 2014, as part of the Independent Lens documentary series. A companion Web-browser-based video game entitled Decisions on Deadline was released alongside the film designed to simulate the ethical choices journalists must make.
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The film features a series of exclusive interviews including discussions with Blair and former executive editor Howell Raines, who stepped down after Blair's plagiarism was uncovered and staff at The Times complained that the breach should have been handled sooner. Raines took the mantle of executive editor in September, 2001, just days before the 9/11 terrorist attacks on The World Trade Center and The Pentagon, leading the paper to "an unprecedented seven Pulitzer prizes." Despite the paper's success under Raines, many reporters expressed feelings of being under pressure and bullied by his demanding management style. Discontent reached an apex after Blair's resignation when a 14,000-word expose of the journalist's plagiarism was published in the Sunday edition of The Times and staff discovered that the paper's metro editor, Jonathan Landman, sent Raines an unheeded memo urging him "to stop Jayson from writing for The Times. Right now.Trailer of A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times
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