[Tierney also said that he did not have any more information on the case than any other Times reader, so he was reluctant to give an opinion. When asked if he could have at least acknowledged the issue in a column and written about how it is affecting the media or Washington, he dismissed such an approach.] An awful lot of my columns are not about Washington, ... I don't have inside knowledge of this case and when I write a column, I try to say something that is original.
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