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To: jlallen who wrote (915197)	1/18/2016 4:17:03 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575625

How dumb have you got to be not to recognize the liberal bias at NYT....?? You might learn something if you read his column, in the meantime try and find something by yourself that you think is biased... “Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?” read the headline Okrent wrote for his July 25, 2004 piece. “Of course it is,” he replied in the column's first sentence. Okrent regrets the headline. “Because I stupidly or vainly wrote a headline that would attract attention, I’m paying the price,’ he said. “I really regret that headline. I don’t regret the content of the piece. As with all articles, I’d like to think it's much more subtle than the headline I put on it. But I pay the price and the Times pays the price for me trying to be too damn clever.” He said the paper pays a price because the column is now used by critics to accuse the Times of bias. “I was speaking specifically to social issues and how the Times reflects its environment and the staff,” he said. “I don’t think the Times is any nicer to Democrats [than Republicans].” Okrent is often singled out among Times public editors for his strongly opinionated and sometimes combative columns. That's usually meant as a compliment. Looking back, he thinks he could have been less combative in his approach. “I went in at the Times prepared for a fight,” he said. “I was chippy. It was, ‘Oh yeah, let’s mix it up.’ I think I was showing off.” He thought the newsroom was against him. “I went in unfairly thinking it was one against 1,200 and it wasn’t one against 1,200 at all,” he said. “There were many who were sympathetic to the notion of internal criticism.” poynter.org