John: Judy Miller makes a similar comment about the openness of rightwing as opposed leftwing media in her new book (The Story: A Reporter’s Journey) with regard to her post-New York Times position as a Fox News contributor:

When Jason [Epstein, Miller’s husband] and many of my liberal friends who consider the network the Antichrist wonder why I joined Fox, I tell them that I enjoy the challenge of a contrary point of view and that there is a greater diversity of opinion at Fox than there was at the Times.

From someone who spent just short of 30 years with the Times, that is a rather telling remark.