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Former NYT ombud
Daniel Okrent elaborates on
what he said earlier in the week about New York Times reporter
Linda Greenhouse: "When I said that I was amazed [by what she said at Harvard], I was kind of amazed and thrilled. My point was that when I was at the Times for 18 months, Linda was writing about the most sensitive, divisive issues in America -- those that have come before the Supreme Court. She wrote about them analytically, not quoting other experts, but stating her own analyses of why things were this way and that way and what the court meant by that -- and I never received a single complaint [about her]. Which is to say that no one ever perceived any ideological bias in her work."
