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.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

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

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.

Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

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

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.