jayson blair keynoting an ethics insurance tutes? why not osama bin ladena -- laden addressing bay knits? one flash perturbed writer said maybe they should not hire jourm little grads. i reported back that it would be just to punish students for the sins of their teachers. programs this blogger would like to keynote our next ethics seminar. i want to talk about this invitation on two levels. first as a journalist. i'm in the business of helping train the next generation of journalists. that's because regardless of what you may have heard, there will indeed be a next generation of journalists and i have the privilege of working with some of them and they're going to be even better than we were and we were very good. as journal lisms their calling will be to engage with and confront the people who are at the center of the major events of their time. our speaker tonight is one search person. that's not to complement him. that's to state a fact. he's exactly the kind of person my kid should be prepared to engage and confront. secondly as

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. >> do you see things where we have to worry about another jayson blair?> this is obviously not a onetime case. we have had situation since them. when you -- i do not really know the answer. but i ask because be read the paper. outside what we think maybe kind of wrong, you have had experience in making things up. >> find a story that is written about this event and what has been written about me. see if the combined a copied word for word summer. this is not enough on journalism. --a knock on journalism. a lot has to do with laws. do we have a problem of plagiarism? yes, we do. how much is in the mainstream media? i do not know. >> for a large part, you are an anomaly. that is what we are told. in the real world, are you an anomaly? >> i do not know. i cannot answer that question. do i know other people? >> yes. >> i do not know what is really going on right now. >> are the standard as strict as we think they are? >> i do not know how stood you think they are. >> we are taught in your not to plagiarize anything. >> those are the standards. >> you got away

. >> do you see things where we have to worry about another jayson blair? is obviously not a onetime case. we have had situation since them. when you -- i do not really know the answer. but i ask because be read the paper. outside what we think maybe kind of wrong, you have had experience in making things up. >> find a story that is written about this event and what has been written about me. see if the combined a copied word for word summer. this is not enough on journalism. --a knock on journalism. a lot has to do with laws. do we have a problem of plagiarism? yes, we do. how much is in the mainstream media? i do not know. >> for a large part, you are an anomaly. that is what we are told. in the real world, are you an anomaly? >> i do not know. i cannot answer that question. do i know other people? >> yes. >> i do not know what is really going on right now. >> are the standard as strict as we think they are? >> i do not know how stood you think they are. >> we are taught in your not to plagiarize anything. >> those are the standards. >> you got away with,