Jayson Blair

[A Black Falcon]

"Knew what he was doing"? You didn't read very closely did you... they did NOT know he was lying. Definitely not. Yes, one desk did have questions about him and thought he was sloppy and error-prone, but didn't think he was actually making it all up... then when he moved to the national desk they weren't told those concerns so those people suspected nothing for quite some time. So there was a lapse in communication that could have helped solve the problem... but it happened. And no one actually knew he was making stuff up anyway... until it all came out.