Clark Hoyt’s public editor column today in The New York Times quotes Andrew Rosenthal at length about “a columnist’s license.” I like what he has to say. For example: First, the similarities. Full Article at Rhetorica

On Maureen Dowd’s column on nuns, I agree with her in principle, but not in tone. Yes, columnists get a lot of leeway, but I am not surprised at Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s objections. She was clearly over the top. Full Article at The New York Times

On Thursday in Washington, as my colleague David Johnston reports, several legislators declared at a Senate hearing that the murder of 12 soldiers and a retired guardsman at Fort Hood this month was “a terrorist attack.” Senator Joseph I. Lieberman,... Full Article at The New York Times

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Joe Sexton, the metro editor, David Chen, the City Hall bureau chief, and Ryan disputed the notion that the paper treated the election as a walkover for Bloomberg. Full Article at Huffington Post

Several hours after I published yesterday's post about Lindsey Hoshaw's crowdfunded story in the New York Times, NYU grad student Leah Taylor raised a good question by e-mail: "Do you think something like this is sustainable?" Full Article at Poynter Online