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For everyone's edification, here's the quote and a link.

On that fitful weekend in late March when the TV satellite trucks hit campus, the lacrosse team could be seen practicing for the Georgetown game, a scene that became an endless video loop suggesting institutional indifference. “We had to stop those pictures,” Bob Steel says. “It doesn’t mean that it’s fair, but we had to stop it. It doesn’t necessarily mean I think it was right—it just had to be done.”

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060904fa_fact

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More gobbledygook from Melanie...

http://blogs.newsobserver.com/editor/index.php?title=march_25_interview&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#comments
10/09/06 at 18:09
Linda, as the deputy managing editor over local news, and I, as editor, are responsible for news decisions. But other editors handled the various stories and specific news decisions mentioned above.

Folks, we are in the business of putting news in the paper, not keeping it out. We are not prone to being hounded into publishing something (or not publishing something) because someone pressures us. Please see my last comment. Please see our home page, keyword Duke lacrosse, for dozens of stories (inlcluding many that answer some of the questions above)

Thanks to all and especially to those who shared your names.

[Dante3]

Robert Steel is intellectually corrupt. Too bad for Duke University is stuck with someone at best inept and clueless.