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Jayson Blair's Profile

Brief about Jayson Blair: By info that we know Jayson Blair was born at 1976-05-23. And also Jayson Blair is American Journalist.

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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 underpinnings.

Tags: Lost, Moral, Once

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

Tags: Good, Hope, Making

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.

Tags: Lie, Life, Tell

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

Tags: Bad, Good, Truth

I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.

Tags: Damage, Done, Sorry

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

Tags: Times, Whether, Worked

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

Tags: Played, Race, Role

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.

Tags: Love, Society, Value

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Tags: Brilliant, Fooled, Journalism

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.

Tags: Ask, Process, Seek

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

Tags: Another, Black, Saying

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

Tags: Brilliant, Catch, Hire

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

Tags: Hard, Played, Race

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

Tags: Painful, True, Written

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

Tags: Built, Racism

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.

Tags: Forever, Nature, Seems

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.

Tags: Remorse, Show, Sure

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.

Tags: Stories, Talk, Wrong

You face racism in small and large ways.

Tags: Face, Racism, Small

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.

Tags: Beautiful, Life, Women
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