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.

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.

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

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.

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

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

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.