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- 2014
- Gush Productions
- 1 h 15 m
- 2014
- Gush Productions
- 1 h 15 m
Summary A Fragile Trust tells the story of Jayson Blair, the most infamous serial plagiarist of our time, and how he unleashed the massive scandal that rocked the New York Times and the entire world of journalism.
Directed By: Samantha Grant
Written By: Richard Levien, Samantha Grant
- 2014
- Gush Productions
- 1 h 15 m
- 2014
- Gush Productions
- 1 h 15 m
A Fragile Trust
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Summary A Fragile Trust tells the story of Jayson Blair, the most infamous serial plagiarist of our time, and how he unleashed the massive scandal that rocked the New York Times and the entire world of journalism.
Directed By: Samantha Grant
Written By: Richard Levien, Samantha Grant
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Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
56
33% Positive
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3 Reviews
67% Mixed
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6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Director Samantha Grant scores an interview with Blair himself, whose too-little-too-late admissions (along with his reemergence as a postguilt life coach) might drive your crowd to hisses.
The movie covers all the bases, but doesn’t advance the story.
While mostly well made, and certain to serve as a handy précis for the J-school set, A Fragile Trust is more a soiling reminder than a revelation for anyone already familiar with Blair's case.
Though its even-tempered account may be more thorough than print and TV coverage at the time, the doc doesn't offer anything dramatic enough to draw many eyeballs at this late date.
Mercifully, as seen from 11 years later, Jayson Blair himself seems a lot less important, not to mention a lot less interesting.
Anyone who paid the slightest attention to the Jayson Blair story when it broke will find nothing new here, though director Samantha Grant does a solid job of laying it all out. What’s disappointing is how little time is afforded to subsidiary aspects that are arguably more significant than Blair’s anomalous transgressions.
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Production Company
Bay Area Video Coalition,
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB),
Gush Productions,
ITVS International,
Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
Release Date Apr 11, 2014
Duration 1 h 15 m
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Awards
Hawaii International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
DOC NYC
• 1 Nomination
