"Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other."

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"Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other."

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"Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction."

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"But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper."

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"Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."

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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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