"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."

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"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."

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"I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars."

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"If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better."

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"Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction."

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"That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me."

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"Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me."

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"The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing."

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