Daniel Okrent Quotes

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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…
• Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.
• 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,…
• But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.
• I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.
• I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.
• I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.
• 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…
• Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.
• The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true,
• 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 -…
• I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
• 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…
• Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.
• It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.
• 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…
• I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.
• If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
• 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…
• 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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