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. Daniel Okrent Read Quote
If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better. Daniel Okrent Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don’t know what I’m talking about. Daniel Okrent Read Quote
Right, but there’s expertise and then there’s inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction. Daniel Okrent Read Quote
I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense. Daniel Okrent Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It’s a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions. Daniel Okrent Read Quote
