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The New York Times

Former New York Times Publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger, Sr. Dies

Former New York Times publisher and chairman Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulzberger, Sr., who ran the paper from 1963 to 1992, has died. The Times reports Mr. Sulzberger passed away at his Southampton  home on Saturday. The senior Sulzberger piloted the paper through the rough seas of the late 1960s and early 1970s and was primarily responsible for pulling the trigger on one of the biggest exposés of the Vietnam War, the Pentagon Papers: Read More

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Daniel Ellsberg in 2010

“As of today, I wouldn’t have waited that long. I would have gotten a scanner and put them on the Internet …  The Internet is there to bring out this evidence, when a terribly wrongful, reckless criminal act is being prepared.” — Pentagon Paper leak Daniel Ellsberg discussing how he would handle the Pentagon Papers Read More