Bill Keller Porter Quotations

I wish it had been a clear-cut whistle-blower case. I wish it had been a reporter who came with less public baggage,

Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end of the anti-Wilson whisper campaign.

There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.

It felt somehow unsavory to begin a tenure by attacking our predecessors, ... We allowed the anger inside and outside the paper to fester. Worse, we fear, we fostered an impression that the Times put a higher premium on protecting its reporters than on coming clean with its readers.