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I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.
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Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.
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New York
Courses
New York Times
Newspapers
Liberal
York
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But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.
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Thinking
Liberal
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I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.
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Believe
I Believe
Newspapers
Great Believe I Believe
Fallible
Newspaper
Profoundly
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The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.
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Balance
Imbalance
Sometimes
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It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.
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Complicated
Facts
Issues
Opinion
Context
Issue
Opinions
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I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.
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Conventional
Libertarian
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I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.
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Car
Chasing
Dog
Reporters
Dogs
Quotes
Same Time
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I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.
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Cocky
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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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Editors
Me Better Body
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Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.
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Baseball
Nice
Winning
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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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Evil
Journalism
Wmd
Reporting
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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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Distinction
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I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean.
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Formats
Readers
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Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.
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Ears
Mind
Substance
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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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Dinner
Good Company
Hate
Hobbies
Nice
Bush
George
George Bush
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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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Jobs
Liking Someone
People
Worry
Me People End
Ended
Liking
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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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Casualties
Civilian Casualties
Editors
Hopeful
Civilian
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If you can't enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember, the best team in baseball in any year is going to be beaten about 60 times.
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Baseball
Team
Winning
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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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Department
Despite
News
Opinion
Pages
Commenting
Enemies
Hired
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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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Credibility
Department
Monday
Permission
Policy
Television
Thinking
Appear
Report
Committee
Good Thing
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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.
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Dubious
Faces
Figures
Hard Questions
Hard Times
Relentless
Reporters
Suspicious
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Washington
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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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Choices
Columns
Implicit
Opinion
People
Perception
Writing
Editorial
Expressed
Freedom People Important
Op-Ed
Page
Positions
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