Posted on 10/21/2005 4:32:00 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Text of E-Mail Sent to The New York Times Staff by Its Executive Editor Skip directly to the full story. The Associated Press
Published: Oct 21, 2005
Text of an e-mail sent to the staff at The New York Times from Bill Keller, the paper's executive editor:
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Title: Memo from NYT executive editor Bill Keller
A Message from Bill Keller:
Colleagues,
As you can imagine, I've done a lot of thinking - and a lot of listening - on the subject of what I should have done differently in handling our reporter's entanglement in the White House leak investigation. Jill and John and I have talked a great deal among ourselves and with many of you, and while this is a discussion that will continue, we thought it would be worth taking a first cut at the lessons we have learned.
Aside from a number of occasions when I wish I had chosen my words more carefully, we've come up with a few points at which we wish we had made different decisions. These are instances, when viewed with the clarity of hindsight, where the mistakes carry lessons beyond the peculiar circumstances of this case.
I wish we had dealt with the controversy over our coverage of WMD as soon as I became executive editor. At the time, we thought we had compelling reasons for kicking the issue down the road. The paper had just been through a major trauma, the Jayson Blair episode, and needed to regain its equilibrium. It felt somehow unsavory to begin a tenure by attacking our predecessors. I was trying to get my arms around a huge new job, appoint my team, get the paper fully back to normal, and I feared the WMD issue could become a crippling distraction.
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Why not? The writer has his foot in his mouth! Oh, you said food. Never mind.
LOL LOL LOL..................oh my sides!
And the sad part is they put this out there so the sheeple will read it and swoon. Sorry .. I'm still standing!
It brought a tear to my eye }:)
Translation: The Puritans at the New York Times have found a witch to burn at the stake.
Keller is trying to save a dying enterprise. Not doing a very good job, imo.
...double my monthly pledge to FReepublic!
Who will join me?
Maybe his apologies for Joe Wilson's whoppers will be in the next e-mail.
You are a lousy liar but an excellent coward.
Regards,
pabianice
p.s. you don't write so good, either
"..but only to the degree that the reporter has lived up to his or her end of the bargain, specifically to have conducted him or herself in a way consistent with our legal, ethical and journalistic standards.."
Is it physically possible to set the bar that low?
"The paper had just been through a major trauma, the Jayson Blair episode, and needed to regain its equilibrium."
"Needed to regain its equillibrium."
Man, If I could spin like that, I might have a career in politics.
This sounds like a letter from a misbehaving 6 -year-old to Santa Claus.
Lame excuses run rampant in this email.
What'd he say?
LOL.
"Don't blame me....It's all George Bush's fault."
How much capital has ol' Punch[y] lost for the Sulzburgers?
Must be fun to write staff memos knowing that they themselves become news.
Thanks for the post.
I had a pretty frustrating day and getting a good hardy laugh has eased the tension and now I can go enjoy my dinner.
Mr. Keller at least remains true to himself - very unintelligent and highly delusional; but of course living in their own delusions is the only way they can remain liberals.
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