Daniel Okrent Quotes

If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner.

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.

Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me.