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To: JohnM who wrote (35270)	7/29/2002 3:42:50 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I have no quarrel with someone who says you can generally find a fairly broad political point of view in, for instance, the NYTimes or the WaPo Ok, that's good. Now, I would argue that the NY Times is solidly left of center. Compare its positions to Time's over the years, for example. It just looks centrist to you because you're to the left of it. If it really were centrist, it would be at the center, that is, Democrats would call it right-wing and Republicans would call it left-wing. Do Democrats call it right-wing? Not just your circle, but DNC mainstream Democrats? From what I've seen, Republicans call it left-wing and Democrats call it centrist or unbiased. That means (almost by definition) that it's left-wing. Furthermore, under Raines, the NY Times is moving more and more into the advocacy school of journalism, while still claiming to be the paper of record. That's the maddening bit.