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Okrent started his job at the Times in the midst of “widespread skepticism?? in the newsroom about the necessity of a public editor, said Adam Nagourney, a political correspondent for the paper who was a fellow at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics this fall. Nagourney—himself a target of a 2004 Okrent column criticizing the Times’ coverage of the Howard Dean campaign—said much of that skepticism evaporated by the end of Okrent’s tenure...
Meanwhile, Spielman noted that he had not examined the study in detail and that he based his comments on prior knowledge as well as a brief survey of the study’s findings. He said that his comments should be taken as skepticism??but not as a categorical denial of—the results...
...fictionalizations add an added layer of subjectivity which—considering the strength of Wright’s underlying research—proves to be entirely superfluous.Unavoidably, these minor transgressions will force readers to approach “Harvard’s Secret Court” with skepticism??to question which details are fact and which are the product of Wright’s prodigious imagination. Are we any the worse off for reading that Roberts’ “highly polished English shoes…glistened in the dim light”—when...