Liz Spayd on The Thankless, Friendless Task of Being the New York Times’s Public Editor
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It’s Liz Spayd’s job to criticize and field criticism of ‘The New York Times,’ which—given the number of brickbats from outside and spikiness of journalists within—is not easy.
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Liz Spayd had an upset stomach.
“Maybe it just goes with the job,” she said, barely picking at an abstemious lunch of undressed salad and plain pasta at one of Manhattan’s gastronomic meccas.
