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Adults should hold themselves accountable for failure.
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And so tonight I'm beginning this newscast
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by joining Mr. Clarke in apologizing
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to the American people for our failure.
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The failure of this program during the time I've been in charge of it
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to successfully inform and educate the American electorate.
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Let me be clear that I don't apologize on behalf of all broadcast journalists,
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nor do all broadcast journalists owe an apology.
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I speak for myself.
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I was an accomplice to a slow and repeated and unacknowledged
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and unamended train wreck of failures
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that have brought us to now.