Today marks the debut of the New York Times' Public Editor. This is a concept with which I think few "small d" democrats could take issue, and I'm curious to see how his eighteen-month term plays out. I think it's fair, however, to express concern, given the Times' and the rest of the media establishment's tendency to lend much more credence to the Times' critics on the right than to its critics on the left, with whether Okrent's aspirations to represent you effectively when you have a complaint about The Times's integrity will cover the full spectrum of the Times' readership. Okrent's suggestion that the media risks ...the boiling resentment toward men and women in power that can arise... in journalism - that the media is too muckracking - suggests that the bias of a corporate media establishment too often in bed with a corporate political establishment isn't the top one on his list.