Dean Baquet Comments on TNR and Rolling Stone

Dean Baquet GWhen you’re the executive editor of The New York Times, people want your take on everything from the Times to the latest media blunders. There are no bigger media f*ck ups lately than the debacle at The New Republic and Rolling Stone’s embarrassingly bad reporting on its UVA rape story.

WWD asked Dean Baquet — the Times’ top editor — for his take on both.

On TNR:

I have to say, it sounded ham-handed the way the guy handled it.

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