Complex sentence: The Metro section of the paper was opposed to running a retraction, but the business desk editor Mark Saylor said "Chuck is sort of the world's authority on rap violence" and pushed, along with Philips, for the paper to retract the article.
Split into simpler sentences: The Metro section of the paper was opposed to running a retraction. But the business desk editor Mark Saylor said "Chuck is sort of the world's authority on rap violence" and pushed, along with Philips, for the paper to retract the article.