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Daniel Okrent

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


— Daniel Okrent


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


— Daniel Okrent


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I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.


— Daniel Okrent


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I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean.


— Daniel Okrent


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I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that.


— Daniel Okrent


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I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.


— Daniel Okrent


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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.


— Daniel Okrent


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


— Daniel Okrent


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


— Daniel Okrent


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If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.


— Daniel Okrent


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About Daniel Okrent






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Knopf; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; Esquire Magazine; New England Monthly; Life Magazine; and TIME Inc. At the time he referred to it as IPRAT signifying "Innings Pitched Ratio. Bibliography
The Ultimate Baseball Book (co-editor with Harris Lewine) (1979)
Nine Innings: The Anatomy of Baseball as Seen Through the Playing of a Single Game (1985)
Baseball Anecdotes (co-author with Steve Wulf) (1987)
The Way We Were: New England Then New England Now (1988)
Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center (2003)
Public Editor #1 (2006)
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (2010)


Filmography
Baseball (1994) (2010) | Documentary | Directed by: Ken Burns
Sweet And Lowdown (1999) | Role of: A.

"Old Jews Telling Jokes" a theatrical revue he co-wrote and co-produced with Peter Gethers opened at the Westside Theatre in Manhattan on May 20 2012. He is best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times newspaper for inventing Rotisserie League Baseball and for writing several books most recently Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition which served as a major source for the 2011 Ken Burns/Lynn Novick miniseries Prohibition. Daniel Okrent (born April 2 1948) is an American writer and editor.

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