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Daniel Okrent

"Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me."

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"Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me."

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"That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns."
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"Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."
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"If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner."
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"If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better."
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"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."
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"But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper."
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"The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing."
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"I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that."
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"I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense."
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