Jayson Blair

Journalist

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I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.

Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

You face racism in small and large ways.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

You face racism in small and large ways.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

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