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Jayson Blair
American
Journalist
Born:
May 23
,
1976
Good
Me
Own
People
Played
You
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I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.
Jayson Blair
Saying
Man
Walk
Black
Degree
College
College Degree
Another
Around
Without
Just
Used
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
Own
Seek
My Own
Vulnerable
Clients
Authentic
Being
Experiences
Process
Ask
Engaging
Using
Enhance
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.
Jayson Blair
News
You
People
Corrections
Out
High
Plus
Guy
Could
Had
He
Failed
Look
Well
Said
Got
How
Caught
Were
Years
Lot
Stories
After
News Media
Many
Media
Amount
Four
If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?
Jayson Blair
Me
Brilliant
Catch
Come
How
Hire
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
Me
Own
Believe
Would
My Own
Caught
Demons
Up
Times
Regardless
Whether
Race
Worked
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.
Jayson Blair
First
Other
Say
Exactly
Exactly What
Remorse
Supposed
Well
Sure
First Thing
Than
The First Thing
Show
Thing
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.
Jayson Blair
Work
You
Experience
People
Pressure
Young
Think
Factory
Journalists
Know
Learn
Wall
Wall Street
Any
Whether
Young People
Who
Alabama
Street
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
Define
Would
Know
How
Hire
Hiring
Ultimately
Role
Race
Played
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.
Jayson Blair
People
Wrong Thing
Right Thing
Wrong
Talk
Report
Did
Just
Want
Stories
The Right Thing
Who
Right
Thing
It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.
Jayson Blair
Say
Case
Role
Race
Really
Hard
Played
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
Time
Good
Day
You
Every Day
Walk
Perspective
Ethics
Made
Every
Relate
Ways
Those
Hopefully
Able
Minute
Something
Something Good
Through
Going
May
Often
Story
Them
Ethical
Choices
Whole
Even
Away
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