Bill Keller, the Times' editor, said in the New York Observer this week that he hadn't heard a single reader complaint about the Reagan coverage.
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Sounds like he is good at 'Clintonspeak."
Letters to the Editor and letters the public editor don't count?
That's what I thought, too. I was out of town when the obituary first ran, so I didn't write to the Times until after I read Keller's blatant lie in the Observer. But if I had written to the Times on Sunday, I would have sent the letter to either the Letters section or the Public Editor. I wouldn't have written Keller directly, and I suspect most people would think the same thing as me. But because Keller didn't personally get the emails sent directly to him, the complaints don't register? Gimme a break.