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Money Talks: The Campaign Against the Free Press

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3988 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this Money Talks: Amidst the Trump administration’s continued attacks on the press, David Enrich’s new book, Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful, feels incredibly timely. He joins Elizabeth Spiers to discuss his reporting on increasing efforts to exploit the legal system to protect the rich and powerful from being held accountable, creating an incredibly fraught landscape for journalists and news outlets. Want to hear that discussion and hear more Slate Money? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6

Hello and welcome to Money Talks.

0:41.6

I'm your host, Elizabeth Spires, and today I'm joined by New York Times Business Investigations

0:46.2

Editor David Enrich, who has a new book called Murder the Truth, Fear the First Amendment

0:51.1

and a secret campaign to protect the powerful. David, first of all,

0:54.4

why don't you introduce yourself? Tell us a little bit about your background. I am a journalist

0:58.3

at the New York Times, as you said. I've been at the Times since 2017. Prior to that, I was at the

1:04.4

Wall Street Journal for many years, both as a reporter and editor in Washington, D.C., and New York and London. This is my fourth book.

1:13.6

And what else do you want to know about me? Well, I want to know why you were compelled to write

1:18.5

this book at this time, because it's coming out at a moment in our sort of political environment

1:24.4

and business environment, media environment that seems incredibly timely

1:29.0

in possibly the worst way. So what got you started on this project? Yeah, well, the timing is like

1:34.5

a lucky or unlucky fluke depending on your perspective, I guess. And I started working on this a few

1:40.5

years ago in large part because my colleagues and I at the times, it just seemed like

1:44.6

every time we were starting a big investigative project, we were getting besieged by threatening

1:50.4

letters from lawyers representing rich and powerful people or institutions that we were writing

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