The Daily Blast: Inside the Nasty Shadow War Between The New York Times and Team Biden

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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A new Politico report has exposed deep tensions between The New York Times and the White House. President Biden’s team believes The Times isn’t adequately capturing the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy, while The Times responds that Team Biden is out to micromanage the paper of record’s coverage. We think this debate is badly muddled and in need of some major clarifications. So we chatted with Substacker Brian Beutler, a frequent media critic, about today’s flawed conventions of political reporting, why they aren’t meeting the challenge of this moment, and what’s needed to change them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.0	This week a political report ripped the lid off of deep tensions that have been simmering for some time now
1:10.0	between the New York Times and the White House.
1:13.0	President Biden's advisors see the paper of record as arrogant and unwilling to give
1:18.0	Biden a fair shake.
1:20.0	The Times responds that Team Biden unreasonably wants to control coverage of the President.
1:26.1	We think this debate is badly in need of some major clarifications.
1:30.7	The Times is doing some great and revelatory work covering this election, particularly the threat of Donald Trump,
1:37.0	but at the same time a fair amount of the criticism of the Times is reasonable and correct,
1:42.0	gets at some important journalistic issues, and is often
1:45.5	misunderstood, not least of all, by some people at the Times itself.
1:50.7	To discuss this, we've invited Brian Boitler back on the show.
1:54.0	Boitler's sub-stack off message offers some of the best criticism of political media that's out there today.
2:00.0	Welcome back Brian.
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