#Jayson Blair

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Jayson Blair in The Hard Times of RJ Berger 2.12 “The Better Man”

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Brand New Cherry Flavor (2021) limited tv series

-(finished) watchin' Season 1 (limited series)- 8/19/2024- on Netflix- 2 [1/4] stars

76% Rotten Tomatoes

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Jayson Blair

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Books: The Language of Fake News

In this Element, the authors introduce and apply a framework for the linguistic analysis of fake news. They define fake news as news that is meant to deceive as opposed to inform and argue that there should be systematic differences between real and fake news that reflect this basic difference in communicative purpose. The authors consider one famous case of fake news involving Jayson Blair of The New York Times, which provides them with the opportunity to conduct a controlled study of the effec http://dlvr.it/SxvN3L

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Just realized this is the movie adaptation of the book that I was obsessed with ages ago. Yeah, the author (James Frey), originally sold the book as a memoir but later admitted that many parts of the book were fabricated so they then marketed it as a semi-fictional piece. (Also, he was featured as a part of Oprah's Book Club and if you don't know, I fucking loved Oprah as a kid and watched her show religiously.)

I fucking was obsessed with writers coming out and saying that they lied about their lives/stories they wrote.

Another great example of this is Stephen Glass, a writer for The New Republic, who was forced to admit that he doctored over 40 articles during his time working for the magazine. He later went on to be played by Hayden Christensen in the film, Shattered Glass.

Then there is Jayson Blair, who worked for The New York Times, and he plagiarized and fabricated stories during his time at the newspaper. He later wrote a biography called Burning Down My Masters' House and disclosed a bipolar diagnosis.

Long story short, if you have a scandal that is big enough, a hot guy will play you in the movie adaptation.

Charlie Hunnam as Bobby Frey Jr. in A Million Little Pieces

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Brand New Cherry Flavor (2021) miniseries

-(started) watchin' Season 1- 6/30/2024- on Netflix

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TwitterFiles15

H/T, .@mtaibbi. TY .@elonmusk.

"…So the “legitimate people,” as one Twitter exec called them, never found out they’d been used as fodder for mountains of news stories about “Russian influence.” Because the #TwitterFiles contain the list, they’ve begun finding out. …"

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someone named jason

Lucy has a few rules in life. Every year, it grows. When she was only sixteen, her rules were don’t go around the block in Ann Arbor and don’t eat whipped cream after eight o’clock at night, as she was convinced whipped cream gave people nightmares about money and guns. Now that she’s forty-six, she has many more rules, such as don’t trust anyone who says they like Applebee’s and don’t trust someone named Jason.

Everyone thinks her rule about people named Jason is silly. They all talk about it over dinner one night in late September, early into her younger daughter Emma’s first semester at NYU. Will swears you can’t rule someone out just based on their name; Lucy swears you can, but only if their name is Jason. She says she hasn’t met a single Jason who’s any good. In between huge laughs, their elder daughter Elenore asks if she really has that many examples.

Lucy smirks. Now that Elenore is twenty-nine, she should know better than to ask Mommy to cite her sources. Everybody knows Lucy Callaghan’s got the longest bibliographies of anybody around.

There was Jason Fields, the valedictorian-slash-homecoming king in the class above Lucy and Will’s back at St. Catherine’s, who inexplicably sprayed ketchup all over Lucy’s white shirt when news broke of her pregnancy in ‘83. By the end of the school year, just before graduation, he’d gotten his own girlfriend pregnant, but nobody said shit about that.

Then there was the Jason she’d been paired up with to dissect a frog in her one and only biology class at Michigan. They got a female frog, and he swore he’d deal with the eggs. But he didn’t. He ran off to go flirt with some other girl in the class – one who wasn’t already married, as he said about a million times, like it was going to make Lucy feel bad or something. She still remembers what she did with Will later that night. Feel bad, her ass.

Even though she never knew him, she adds Jayson Blair to the list. You don’t just get to make up stories at The New York Times, she says, and she’s pretty sure she’s right.

The rule gets a pretty good laugh around the dinner table. Even Veronica knows it’s kind of funny, and she’s only seven years old. Everybody’s laughing at Lucy’s new rule except Emma. When Will asks her if she’s OK, she shrugs and says she thinks she’s in love with someone named Jason. He’s in her early film history class, he has big brown eyes, and he knows every line to The Red Balloon in its original French. Lucy suppresses the urge to blow a raspberry over her plate of chicken fried rice. She wishes she could say what she’s feeling: that she’s sure glad she met Will when they were only six, because if she hadn’t met the love of her life before she even knew what romance was, she certainly would have fallen for some jerk like that when she went to college. Emma’s so much like her. Lucy wishes she could say all that – wishes she could beg her youngest to hold out for a guy like her old man – but she doesn’t. She knows better than that. After all, one of her rules is let your kids make decisions for themselves. That’s why she’s a mother in the first place.

In October, just around midterms, Lucy feigns a big smile when Emma announces she’s going on a date with Jason. She’s not worried. His name is Jason, and their courtship will end sooner than it even began. Two days later, it turns out Lucy was right. This Jason won’t even look Emma in the eye during any of the classes they have together. He won’t even acknowledge they went on a date – that they had fun on a date. Emma’s not a crier, but on that Wednesday night, she bawls into her mother’s lap.

Lucy doesn’t reiterate the rule about someone named Jason.

She just seethes about it.

No one does her Emma wrong like that. No one does her Emma wrong at all.

Especially not someone named Jason.

(part of @nosebleedclub december challenge -- day xxiv! is it possible i’m on time? looks like ... for now!)

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Jayson Blair via his IG story.

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