Jayson Blair On Fox News: ‘I Delivered A Blow To A Profession I Love’
Disgraced former New York Times journalist Jayson Blair will sit down with Chris Wallace tonight on Fox News Sunday to discuss the state of the mainstream media and unavoidably, his own ethical scandal. The network is currently running an exclusive preview of the interview online at Wallace’s blog.
In it, Blair speaks calmly about his missteps, seemingly wiser for having owned up his past mistakes. At Wallace’s behest, he draws parallels between his own journalistic situation and the troubles plaguing the Times and the rest of the mainstream media.
“Every time I think the media struggles or they are weakened by it, we collectively as society are weakened by it, and I certainly look at my own experience in that same context,” he tells Wallace.
Blair continues:
“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.”
“In life most of the big ethical decisions don’t come sweeping down like a giant you know question from the sky saying hey Jayson do you want to throw away your career or hurt the people you love,” he said.
“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.”
Here’s the clip:
