News Groper’s version of Jayson Blair is all about the First Amendment and the Shield Bill.

His logic is airtight:

If this reporter gets a wicked quote from General Petreaus revealing his new plan to kill every Iraqi and replace them with the peaceful Kuarupu tribe of the Amazon, and the reporter’s needling editor wants to engage in the most time-wasting and stupid practice of all time: fact checking, the reporter doesn’t have to.

Even if this asshole editor says: “This Shield bill only applies to external summonses. I’m your editor, you have to show me your notes. Look let’s not make this any more difficult than it has to be, I know this quote is clearly fabricated.”

Even then, the reporter doesn’t have to show his notes to the editor. Because the bill says so.

The real Jayson Blair would agree. He truly was a man of ahead of his time.