Jayson Blair, a 27 year-old staff reporter from The New York Times repeatedly wrote false pieces ranging from topics like sniper attacks in Washington to topics about grieving with war. Blair managed to keep his faulty pieces running through the press from October 2002 to April 2003; not a very long run.
Compared to the situation seen in the film "Shattered Glass", Stephen Glass managed to go years before being caught, and wrote 27 plagiarized pieces. Something that may have separated both Glass and Blair from each other was their characteristics.
Glass, in the film, is described as this awkward, nervous and self-conscious people-pleaser. Being this kind of character gave him an edge where other people feel they need to defend him. Blair maybe might not have had these characteristics or something similar to them, instead he may have been a suspicious person which would've led to him getting caught.
Below is the link to the The New York Times' message to their readers concerning Blair's plagiarism.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/us/correcting-the-record-times-reporter-who-resigned-leaves-long-trail-of-deception.html
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