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

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

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.

If you can't enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember, the best team in baseball in any year is going to be beaten about 60 times.

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

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