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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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