Jayson Blair Quotes

Jayson Blair — American Journalist born on May 23, 1976,

Jayson Thomas Blair is 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... (wikipedia)

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

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities.

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

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.

Jayson Blair Quotes

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