American - Editor | April 2, 1948 -
I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.
Daniel Okrent
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Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.
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I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.
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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.
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That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.
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If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
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I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.
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