I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.
From Daniel Okrent
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.
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.
Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.
I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.
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.
I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.
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.
I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean.
I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
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