"Amanda Bennett" is an American journalist and author. She is the former editor of two newspapers, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Lexington Herald-Leader and author of six nonfiction books.

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We're running this in order to give people a perspective of what the controversy's about, not to titillate.

Neither I nor the newspaper meant any disrespect to their religion or their prophet [by running the Muhammad cartoon].

This is the kind of work that newspapers are in business to do.

This is the kind of work that newspapers are in business to do. We're running this in order to give people a perspective of what the controversy's about, not to titillate, and we have done that with a whole wide range of images throughout our history.

I think this is really an opportunity to build some bridges.

It's a time of great uncertainty, but we are focused on doing great journalism for ourselves because we want to and for our readers because they deserve it.