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            A Fragile Trust: Jayson Blair Scandal Fallout
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary A Fragile Trust, Macarena Hernandez, the young journalist and former colleague whose work was lifted by Blair, and others discuss the fallout and subsequent impact the Jayson Blair scandal had on journalism and the news business.
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