Update 4

What was going on at the Times during the Thompson/McCain scandal?

• He has a unique view as a columnist, he is not a reporter. His column is independent and is not reviewed before it is printed.
• With investigative journalists, once they get their teeth into a story, it is near impossible to get them to let it go. The journalist wanted to write one story, the editors wanted a different one, and the compromise satisfied no one.
• As much as I love McCain, I also know that these are very good journalists. Very hard for me because I have loyalties on both sides.

Advice for a new editor

• Metaphor for editors as nursery school teacher. You have brats running around who want to do their own thing and you have to organize them and tell them what to do. And then you don't even really get the glory, it isn't your name.
  
• You have to balance multiple journalists who all have the same goal: page 1. Therefore, people skills are very important.
  
• Said that his personality wasn't suited to editing.
  

Priorities of America: steroids scandal

• People do basically get that it is make believe, or that it doesn't really matter. But people do attach themselves to teams and they have the power to unite people.
• Some of the emotions of sports are caught up in politics as well. Politics is about team spirit, even if it means suppressing the truth.