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 company at dinner.

Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.

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.

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

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.

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