New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn said in a new interview that he won't allow his paper to become an "instrument of the Biden campaign" simply because his agenda aligns with traditional establishment parties.
Kahn told Semafor’s Ben Smith the Times’ job is to "cover the full range of issues" that Americans have, not serve one side.
"At the moment, democracy is [a top issue]. But it’s not the top one — immigration happens to be the top [of polls], and the economy and inflation is the second. Should we stop covering those things because they’re favorable to Trump and minimize them? I don’t even know how it’s supposed to work in the view of Dan Pfeiffer or the White House," he said.
"We become an instrument of the Biden campaign? We turn ourselves into Xinhua News Agency or Pravda and put out a stream of stuff that’s very, very favorable to them and only write negative stories about the other side? And that would accomplish — what?"
Fox News Digital reached out to the Biden campaign for comment but has yet to receive a response.
Former Obama senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer recently put a spotlight on an ongoing tiff between President Biden’s White House and the Times, which has repeatedly criticized Biden for his unprecedented lack of media access. Pfeiffer wrote that the Times doesn’t "see their job as saving democracy or stopping an authoritarian from taking power," so Smith asked Kahn why he doesn’t believe it’s his job to "stop Trump."
"Good media is the Fourth Estate, it’s another pillar of democracy. One of the absolute necessities of democracy is having a free and fair and open election where people can compete for votes, and the role of the news media in that environment is not to skew your coverage towards one candidate or the other, but just to provide very good, hard-hitting, well-rounded coverage of both candidates, and informing voters," Kahn told Smith, a former Times media columnist
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ny-times-editor-says-its-not-papers-job-to-be-biden-campaign-arm-amid-white-house-tensions/ar-BB1lUCct
That is some funny assed shit.
Headline news article coming yet this week:
New York Times Editor Does Not Know His job.
Kahn told Semafor’s Ben Smith the Times’ job is to "cover the full range of issues" that Americans have, not serve one side.
"At the moment, democracy is [a top issue]. But it’s not the top one — immigration happens to be the top [of polls], and the economy and inflation is the second. Should we stop covering those things because they’re favorable to Trump and minimize them? I don’t even know how it’s supposed to work in the view of Dan Pfeiffer or the White House," he said.
"We become an instrument of the Biden campaign? We turn ourselves into Xinhua News Agency or Pravda and put out a stream of stuff that’s very, very favorable to them and only write negative stories about the other side? And that would accomplish — what?"
Fox News Digital reached out to the Biden campaign for comment but has yet to receive a response.
Former Obama senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer recently put a spotlight on an ongoing tiff between President Biden’s White House and the Times, which has repeatedly criticized Biden for his unprecedented lack of media access. Pfeiffer wrote that the Times doesn’t "see their job as saving democracy or stopping an authoritarian from taking power," so Smith asked Kahn why he doesn’t believe it’s his job to "stop Trump."
"Good media is the Fourth Estate, it’s another pillar of democracy. One of the absolute necessities of democracy is having a free and fair and open election where people can compete for votes, and the role of the news media in that environment is not to skew your coverage towards one candidate or the other, but just to provide very good, hard-hitting, well-rounded coverage of both candidates, and informing voters," Kahn told Smith, a former Times media columnist
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ny-times-editor-says-its-not-papers-job-to-be-biden-campaign-arm-amid-white-house-tensions/ar-BB1lUCct
That is some funny assed shit.
Headline news article coming yet this week:
New York Times Editor Does Not Know His job.
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