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.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

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.

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.

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

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.

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