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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

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