[68skylark]

I'm afraid I'll have to respectfully disagree. He wrote a landmark column that clearly said the NY Times was a "liberal" newspaper. How many people in the mainstream press have written that kind of column?

Here's the link:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E7D8173DF936A15754C0A9629C8B63

[John Thornton]

Yes, that was a decent column. But, I have read too many columns where he criticized the paper for "believing Bush about the WMDs" and other cases of being too conservative. Until the last month, I subscribed to that rag and almost always came away disgusted.