Nixon Question Dogs Times C.E.O.: What Did He Know and When Did he Know it?

For his sake, I hope that Mark Thompson, the former BBC bigwig who recently took over as chief executive of the New York Times Company, rented an apartment rather than buying one. The way things are going, he could well be back in London pretty soon. A piece in Friday’s Times—the paper of record that Thompson is now overseeing, at least on the business side—has raised new questions about his role in the BBC sex scandal, which has already cost his successor his job.

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