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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. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

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I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that. ↗

— Ben Okri

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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. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

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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. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

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In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.' ↗

— Ann Curry

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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

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Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

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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

#also #ask #bureau #dubious #face

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

#columns #editorial #expressed #freedom #given