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The Pink Lady?
Should the NY Times be more opinionated...and liberal
That's what they'd be calling the Paper Formerly Known as the Grey Lady if it took the advice of Gawker's Nick Denton -- and I'm with him 100 percent on this one:
The Times is the closet-case of newspapers. Everybody knows that the political bent is liberal; that the newspaper's reporters have opinions; and that they're hungry for a juicy story, even if the rush to publish can introduce mistakes. None of these are crimes; they only become embarrassments because of the paper's official position. Bill Keller needs simply to come to terms with the nature of modern newspapers. He and his colleagues will feel so much lighter if they do.
At this stage of the ballgame, the only thing that newspapers have to fear is fear itself.