New York Times Walks Back Story on Clinton Emails

The New York Times public editor admits the newspaper story last week about Hillary Clinton’s use of private email for classified information “was, to put it mildly, a mess.”

“But you can’t put stories like this back in the bottle – they ripple through the entire news system.”

“I’ll summarize my prescription in four words: Less speed. More transparency. After all, readers come to The Times not for a scoop, though those can be great, but for fair, authoritative and accurate information. And when things do go wrong, readers deserve a thorough, immediate explanation from the top. None of that happened here.”