Corrections
On Thursday, June 12, 2003, The Times published an Editors' Note stating that ten additional articles by Jayson Blair, who resigned on May 1 as a reporter, were found to include misrepresentations or possible borrowed passages. An accounting of those articles was published online at nytimes.com/corrections.html. This article was among those described. The description:
'Healthy Skepticism and the Marketing of AIDS'
Mr. Blair appears to have borrowed from a series of passages in an article about the same subject written five years earlier by Amanda Bennett and Anita Sharpe in The Wall Street Journal. In one instance, Mr. Blair wrote, 'In 1987, for example, the federal government decided to blitz the American people with a frightening message: anyone could get AIDS. In their article of May 1, 1996, Ms. Bennett and Ms. Sharpe wrote, 'In the summer of 1987, federal health officials made the fateful decision to bombard the public with a terrifying message: Anyone could get AIDS.'