NYT's Sulzberger on Blogs

At a stop at the Poynter Institute in St. Pete, NYTimes Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. said bloggers -- which the St. Pete Times defined as "Internet-based commentators and watchdogs" -- have increased scrutiny on journalists' accuracy and evenhandedness in an era of growing pressures to deliver quicker-than-ever turnaround of news and perspective.

Is it working? I don't think so:

On the charge of liberal bias, Sulzberger laughed. "I hear more complaints that the newspaper is in the pocket of the Bush administration than that it is too liberal," he said.

And that says worlds about the fact that liberals are liberals because they surround themselves with liberals.

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