00:00There are many big mistakes an executive editor can make.
00:03The biggest mistake is probably to become too comfortable with power.
00:10I think it's very easy.
00:14I mean, if you run the New York Times, the Washington Post, and as you guys grow, you'll see this.
00:18People court you, and you have to resist that.
00:22I did not do it, so it wasn't to mistake me, but I was pretty radical about it.
00:28I would not have off-the-record.
00:30I mean, the whole time I ran the Washington Bureau of the New York Times, I never met Barack Obama
00:36because he wanted to have off-the-record lunches and dinners, and I didn't do that.
00:41I didn't believe in that.
00:43But it's very tempting, and I've seen it happen to editors.
00:47I've seen it happen to executive editors.
00:50You suddenly feel like you get invited to all the right places.
00:53The biggest mistakes I made, oh, boy.
00:58There's so many I want to wind up.
01:00I, too, probably as an editor, I, too, did not embrace the Internet fast enough.
01:11I, too, when I was running the L.A. Times and when I was the number two editor at the
01:16L.A. Times,
01:18I, too, held on to some traditions too long.
01:25And, frankly, that made it so that when I became editor of the New York Times,
01:28I understood that I had waited too long, and I wasn't as, I wasn't as, I was much, much more
01:36willing to change radically than I was.
01:39But I think, I think every news executive in the world, probably, was too slow to understand
01:47the Internet was inevitable.
01:48And I think that's probably, that's, I regret that.
01:52If I knew then what I know now, I would have handled it very differently.
01:55So, if I knew then, you have a chance of receiving an invert easily in the world.
01:56I'm very strange.
01:56Alright.
01:56Alright, and accepted.
01:56We've been doing this at the L.A. statement for the
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