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" But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper. "
Liberal
Think
Paper
" 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. "
Nothing
Two
Opinion
" I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one. "
I Believe
Newspaper
Great
" If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better. "
Body
Little
Before
" 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. "
Friends
Good
Hate
" I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits. "
Reporters
Ridicule
Who
" I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars. "
See
Same
Time
" I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism. "
Evil
Journalism
Bad
" Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is. "
Liberal
Times
New York
" I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean. "
Made
Clear
Mean
" 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. "
Involved
Will
Think
" I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense. "
Conservative
Think
Than
" It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions. "
Opinions
Complicated
Context
" I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about. "
Little
Cocky
Feel
" 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. "
Job
End
Worry
" Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction. "
Inside
Think
Information
" That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me. "
Week
Face
Hard
" 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. "
Freedom
People
Opinion
" 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. "
Think
Monday
Television
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