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Daniel Okrent, former public editor of the New York Times, in a Q & A at Williams College in February, widened his critique of the Times's slack coverage of the run-up to the Iraq War: "I don't think it is fair to say that Judith Miller caused the war in Iraq or that the New York Times did. I do think that it is fair to say that general rolling-over on the part of the American press allowed the war to happen. I do believe that that is true.... And I think that the press is extremely chastened by it--that we all know how bad it was."
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