MEDIA: Comment - Sars and NY Times underline the value of reliable content

Last week, The New York Times published a fairly disturbing expose, one of those revealing pieces about deception in high places for which the newspaper is rightly famous. No Pulitzer Prize will be forthcoming, however, because the story was about one of its own reporters, Jayson Blair, who fabricated facts, plagiarised quotes and otherwise misrepresented the truth while covering high-profile domestic news events.