Hard News: Twenty-One Brutal Months at the New York Times and How They Changed the American Media
By Seth Mnookin

We're Offering A High Discount On This Book As It Is Slightly DamagedNote:and This item is eligible forand FREE Click and Collectand without a minimum order subject to availability.and FREE Click and Collect with Amazon Pickup Locations\u003c\/b>andquot;,andquot;positionandquot;:andquot;triggerBottomandquot;}">DetailsOn May 11, 2003,and The New York Timesand devoted four pages of its Sunday paper to the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a mediocre formerand Timesand reporter who had made up stories, faked datelines, and plagiarized on a massive scale. The fallout from the Blair scandal rocked theand Timesand to its core and revealed fault lines in a fractious newsroom that was already close to open revolt.Staffers were furious-about the perception that management had given Blair more leeway because he was black, about the special treatment of favored correspondents, and most of all about the shoddy reporting that was infecting the most revered newspaper in the world. Within a month, Howell Raines, the imperious executive editor who had taken office less than a week before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001-and helped lead the paper to a record six Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of the attacks-had been forced out of his job.Having gained unprecedented access to the reporters who conducted the Times's internal investigation, top newsroom executives, and dozens of Times editors, formerand Newsweekand senior writer Seth Mnookin lets us read all about it-the story behind the biggest journalistic scam of our era and the profound implications of the scandal for the rapidly changing world of American journalism.It's a true tale that reads like Greek drama, with the most revered of American institutions attempting to overcome the crippling effects of a leader's blinding narcissism and a low-level reporter's sociopathic deceptions.and Hard Newsand will shape how we understand and judge the media for years to come.