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Sunday, December 07, 2003
NY Times gets two-week
reprieve. All things considered, I think New York Times
readers would have been better served today if the new public editor,
Daniel Okrent, had plunged right in rather than writing a
gaseous
self-introduction.
Mark Jurkowitz had a good
profile
of Okrent in the Boston Globe last Wednesday, noting, among
other things, that Okrent is the father of Rotisserie
Baseball.
"I now know how J. Robert
Oppenheimer felt inventing the atomic bomb," Okrent told Jurkowitz.
"It's not the thing I want to be remembered for, but I will be."
Given Okrent's rueful tone, it's not surprising that he didn't even
mention it in his Times piece.
So fine, now we know all about
Okrent. "See you in two weeks," he concludes. Dan, we'll all look
forward to it if you decide to start telling us about the
Times and stop telling us about yourself.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
