New York Times admits they gave Hillary Clinton veto rights on quotes — in clear violation of their ban on After-the-Fact ‘Quote Approval’.

Harvard’s Journalist’s Resources explains, “Do not let anyone get you to agree to have quotations approved before they are used in your story; it is not good journalistic practice and does not serve your audience in an honest way. This has become a important ethical issue in contemporary American journalism. For a sense of how such dynamics may play out, read “Latest Word on the Campaign Trail? I Take It Back,” in the New York Times.”

Three months after the that story the New York Times banned the the practice of quote approval. The executive editor for the NYT explained,

“The practice risks giving readers a mistaken impression that we are ceding too much control over a story to our sources. In its most extreme form, it invites meddling by press aides and others that goes far beyond the traditional negotiations between reporter and source over the terms of an interview.”