Jayson Blair was caught in a plagiarism scandal that harmed the New York Times reputation; though he set the stage for more incidents like that to happen and history to repeat itself. Jayson, a young reporter could do so much harm to a prestigious newspaper seemed impossible. What is the result, after a reporter commits frequent acts of journalistic fraud while covering significant news events? The trend continues when there are not things or people in place to rectify it. When obvious warning signs are ignored, such as Jayson Blair’s mistakes it only weakens the credibility of the newspaper. Comparing and contrasting two articles about Blair will explain similar information about the incident. This composition will compare the scandal that …show more content…
Byron surveyed members of the Siegal Committee, a paper’s management group who was created to recommend changes and made policies to assure the quality and integrity of the newsrooms methods of operation. The committee is made up of twenty-five people, and fifteen members responded with maybe, the possibility of this plagiarizing scandal happening again. Calame understood the tightening of the procedures and the new culture of the newsroom. New culture of the newsroom involved the trust in editors; they would guarantee no intent on plagiarism or fabrication. Calame’s purpose was to understand the procedures that were put in place after the scandal, and how it was different or not enforced before. Now, since it is important that the process is applied, the first step in the procedure is random checks of articles. Random checks ensure that an editor knows the name of an anonymous source. For example, if Blair had been forced to give the name of the anonymous source he relied on in December of 2002 that listed evidence, this step in random checking would have given editors a better chance to detect that the pieces of evidence did not exist. With the help of the new database, errors in the Times newsroom were soon to be corrected. Blair’s, corner-cutting and ample amount of mistakes would have been caught. Calame is …show more content…
Calame corrected the editor over a Jayson article, and then added in his opinion and conclusion. It was comprehensive to various degrees and the range of material scrutinized is broad. In order to correct, Calame also used collect correspondence by using facts from the Jayson Blair website, and New York Times article, and over Plagiarism scandal involving Jason. To note the diction of his article, it was casual and contained a few negative connotations. A final note of Calame, states the procedure and protection that the Times follow now will be tested in the future in a different way; safeguards require additional resources, they will not be able to keep up with the cutbacks in the newsroom. Being that cutbacks are the result of fewer editors who do not follow proper paper guidelines. Calame still believes that such an incident can occur again, unlike the other article’s perspective on Blair, though it will be less