Jayson Blair
Jayson Blair
Jayson Thomas Blairis an American journalist formerly with The New York Times. He resigned from the newspaper in May 2003 in the wake of the discovery of plagiarism and fabrication in his stories...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth17 May 1984
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
people forever disappear
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.
people brilliant journalism
I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.
media years people
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.
wall thinking people
I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.
people stories want
When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.
large
You face racism in small and large ways.
choices ethical good hopefully minute perspective relate time walk ways
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.
sorry damage done
I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.
making-amends situation seeking
I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.
appreciation betrayal taken
I can't say anything other than the fact that I feel a range of emotions including guilt, shame, sadness, betrayal, freedom and appreciation for those who have stood by me, been tough on me, and have taken the time to understand that there is a deeper story and not to believe everything they read in the newspapers.
firsts not-sure wells
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.
lying would-be weakness
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.
self racism persons
Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.
painful written
It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.