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Keller opens debate on press

Contributing Reporter
Published Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The New York Times has long been a vocal advocate for press freedom, and on Monday, Times executive editor Bill Keller brought that debate to campus.

Keller affirmed the resolution that “The Press has a Duty to Expose Government Secrets” at a Yale Political Union meeting Monday evening. The debate was the third of the semester for the YPU.

In July 2006, Keller co-authored an editorial with Dean Baquet, then-editor of the Los Angeles Times, entitled “When do we Publish a Secret?” in response to both newspapers’ disclosure of a covert Bush administration program to track...

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