Photo Gallery 'A Gratuitous Insult'
When asked how he felt about the fact that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden (pictured here on an advertisement on a bus in Washington, DC) didn't approach his newspaper with his revelations of mass surveillance, Baquet described the development as something that "hurt a lot." "Morally, it meant that somebody with a big story to tell didn't think we were the place to go, and that's painful."
Regarding the New York Times' controversial decision not to publish images from France's Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper, Baquet said, "As much as I love showing solidarity, that's my second or third most important job. My first job is to serve the readers of the New York Times, and a big chunk of the readers ... are people who would be offended by showing satire of the Prophet Muhammad."
