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To: LindyBill who wrote (132201)	8/13/2005 7:59:56 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793824

Bill, I appreciate this long piece on why you feel the way you do about the Times and your methodology for arriving at these conclusions. It won't surprise you to know that I don't agree that it's their politics alone which leads to the story results you mention. And it won't surprise you to know I don't consider it a liberal paper. It's the paper, in my view, of the establishment to the degree there is such in this country. I think that political/social/cultural placement is one variable which accounts for which stories they do, how they do them, where they feature them, and so on. But I also think there are many other variables--sometimes a reporter's competence/incompetence, sometimes an editor's competence/incompetence, sometimes commitments to waiting until a story gets clear, sometimes commitment to getting it right rather than quick, sometimes not wishing to be anyone's political adjunct, and so on. I think very rarely does an explicit political commitment launch itself directly into a story. But we've been there and done that. I'll continue to offer my point of view when I'm around. And I'm confident you'll continue to offer your political criticisms of the Times. I'm not bothered by that. But I will weigh in now and again.