Anyway, back to Bragg. He tells the Washington Post that he feels he's being singled out as a sacrificial lamb in the aftermath of the Jayson Blair affair:
But now what he calls a "poisonous atmosphere" has descended on the Times -- one that prompted the paper to suspend Bragg for two weeks for practices he considers utterly routine -- and the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter says he will quit in the next few weeks.
"Obviously, I'm taking a bullet here," he said of the suspension imposed last week. "Anyone with half a brain can see that." But, he said, "I'm too mad to whine about it."
So Bragg is a make-up call for Blair, to prove that white guys can be screw-ups, too, perhaps?
