Burning Down My Master's House: My Life at the New York Times

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Summary: What's the matter with Jayson?
Review: What's wrong with Jayson? Apparently quite a lot. What's wrong with this book? Just about everything. Blair ruined his career and embarrassed his former employers the NYT but this book doesn't even try to half way honestly explain why. He says that he started plagarizing and fantasizing only under severe mental stress towards the end of his NYT days. That does not square with what the NYT investigation said.

According to Blair, it's not uncommon for people in the newsroom to be crazed,or impaired through drugs or alcohol. If that's true how does the NYT get published every morning? I found the book to be too much a defense and not enough of an apology.