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.
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 thos… - Jayson Blair
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 thos…
- Jayson Blair
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. - Jayson Blair
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.
Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpi… - Jayson Blair
Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpi…
I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree. - Jayson Blair
I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.
I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times. - Jayson Blair
I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.
I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation. - Jayson Blair
I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.
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. - Jayson Blair
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.
It's hard to say what role race really played in my case. - Jayson Blair
It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.
I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring. - Jayson Blair
I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.
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