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 Read Quote
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. Jayson Blair Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Jayson Blair Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
