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Mar 17 2008 12:00am EDT

Duly Quoted: Christopher Hitchens on the 'Times'

"I wake up every day and I check two things: One, does the New York Times still have on its front page that moronic little box that says 'All the News That's Fit to Print'? Are they going to insult me again today with this?... So I always start the day pissed off. And then I check to see if my hometown newspaper, the Washington Post, is still publishing horoscopes. Yes."

-All-purpose commentator Christopher Hitchens, during a talk to journalism students about how the Times sets the national news agenda. Video, after the jump, via Reason.tv.

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