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.

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.

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.

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

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.