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It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

~Daniel Okrent

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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.

~Daniel Okrent

Topics: Choice Columns Editorial Expressed Freedom Given Implicit Important Nation Opinion Page People Perception Positions Publisher Readers Times Very Who Write

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

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I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

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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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Topics: Distinction Expertise Information Inside Make Right Then Think I Think

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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.

~Daniel Okrent

Topics: Able Being Deal Decided Did End Ended Job Liking Me Now People Up Worry Wrong

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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.

~Daniel Okrent

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If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.

~Daniel Okrent

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I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

~Daniel Okrent

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: April 2nd, 1948

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