Financial writer Donald Luskin Fisks Okrent’s column within an inch of its life and concludes:
while Okrent seeks to evade the tough question of “Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?” — or, more precisely, to answer the question “no” by answering it “yes” in a trivializing manner — his column actually answers the question perfectly. Okrent’s column is, itself, an example of it. I officially declare the Okrent experiment a failure.
Incidentally, for a thorough round-up of what the Blogosphere thinks of Okrent’s admission, follow the links at Memeorandum.
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