"For the past three years, my assignment has been to try to help this newspaper live up to its own high journalistic standards as it covered a historic presiden

"For the past three years, my assignment has been to try to help this newspaper live up to its own high journalistic standards as it covered a historic presidential election, two wars, the Great Recession, violence in the Middle East and more. I have deplored the overuse of anonymous sources, warned against the creep of opinion into news analysis and worried about the preservation of Times quality on the Internet. But, in truth, I have sometimes felt less like a keeper of the flame and more like an internal affairs cop," said Clark Hoyt, who was departing as the public editor of The New York Times in 2010; Hoyt had been serving as the NYT internal representative for the readers. Source: http://nytimes.com/2010/06/13/opinion/13pubed.html http://nytimes.com/2010/06/13/opinion/13pubed.html