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Oct 08 2008 4:19pm EDT

Ex-'NY Times' Ombud 'No Longer Impartial'

Here's one of the more surprising bylines to pop up on the Huffington Post recently: Daniel Okrent. As former public editor of The New York Times, Okrent was in charge of policing the Newspaper Of Record for bias; now he's cheering on Barack Obama in the preferred town square of online liberals. According to his Huffpo bio, Okrent "is thrilled he no longer has to be impartial."

Reached by phone, Okrent acknowledged he is an Obama supporter -- but isn't really a Huffpo blogger. "I didn't write it for them," he says. Rather, the post grew out of a daily morale-boosting email he has been sending to a small group of fellow Obama supporters for the past month. After the list grew to 80 people, Okrent decided to forward one of the emails to a friend of his son who works at Huffpo and had been asking him to contribute. But, he adds, "generally, I don't do that sort of thing.". □

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