NBC’s Today Show aired excerpts of an audio-only jailhouse interview with convicted pedophile and former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky yesterday.

The interviews with Sandusky were conducted by filmmaker John Ziegler as part of a film he is making in an effort to restore the name of Penn State’s long time head-football coach Joe Paterno.  In Ziegler’s interview with Matt Lauer, he explains he preemptively wrote an open letter to the media in anticipation of backlash on the interview.  While he agrees that Sandusky is guilty of the crimes for which he’s been convicted, he stresses that his research led him to believe that there were many due process errors in the Sandusky investigation and subsequent trial. And he says the media wants to play dumb.

“The media has an agenda…they don’t want to hear what the truth is. This has been a rush to judgement from the beginning.”

Primarily he is referring to some inconsistencies in the testimonies of prosecution star witnesses Mike McQueary and “Victim #2.”  McQueary, a one-time assisstant coach with the football program testified he witnessed Sandusky committing a sexual act upon the unnamed victim.  In one of the interview clips, Sandusky agrees that the investigation was not carried out in a professional manner.

“I think there’s a lot of things that transpired.  I think these investigators - the way the went about business…his story changed a lot.  I think he said some things and then it escalated on him even.  There’s a lot of suggestive questioning.”

Sandusky is serving 30 - 60 years in prison on 45 counts of child sexual abuse.