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THE PUBLIC EDITOR THE first true blizzard of the first public editor's first season began Sunday, Dec. 21. The lead headline on the front page of The Times declared, ''Strong Support Is Found for Ban on Gay Marriage." Reading the article over my morning coffee, I wondered why a single poll - The Times's own, co-sponsored by CBS - was itself considered news (at least one other released around the same time showed substantially different results). But for the next two weeks, rising drifts of e-mail provoked by the piece made me realize my attention belonged elsewhere. Most correspondents felt...

Howell Raines, the executive editor of The New York Times, is accused of running an anti-President Bush PR campaign in an op-ed page article in The New York Sun's July 19 edition. The piece was written by Andrew Sullivan, a senior editor at the New Republic, who was recently barred from further contributions to The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Sullivan accuses Raines of using the "newspaper's resources to the pursuit of a single ideological theme, e.g., that President Bush is a corrupt businessman, who supports thieves who have employed accounting fraud to steal shareholders' money." "Usually, this is done...