Howell Raines, Ousted New York Times Editor, Reflects Five Years After Jayson Blair Scandal
May 6, 2008 - It is clearly a coincidence that former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines will be in town this week, exactly five years after the notorious Jayson Blair scandal that ended his Times tenure and created a credibility nightmare for the paper.
Raines, who has spent the past half-decade on different writing projects and fixing up his home in rural Henryville, Pa., has a good reason to hit…