I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

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

The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

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

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.

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.