‘A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair At the New York Times’ Review

Liars can be the best documentary subjects. That might seem counter-intuitive. Watching a documentary is already a trust fall, so how much can we believe one if its story is partially delivered through a source we know to be untrustworthy? But a great documentary can use the ambiguity of a dishonest interviewee as a way to interrogate the very idea of t…