{"id":68258,"date":"2024-05-20T16:37:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T21:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68258"},"modified":"2024-05-20T16:37:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T21:37:03","slug":"weekend-reads-the-american-press-gets-its-groove-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68258","title":{"rendered":"Weekend reads: The American press gets its groove back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Weekend reads: The American press gets its groove back<\/a><\/h3>\n

U.S. media is ‘dragging itself back from the brink.’ Will Canada follow?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A story broke last weekend that I\u2019ve been waiting a long time to see. In\u00a0an interview with Ben Smith at Semafor<\/a>, Joe Kahn, the executive editor of The New York Times, effectively announced the return of journalism to its pre-Trump era standards, stating that the role of the news media \u201cis not to skew your coverage towards one candidate or the other.\u201d Kahn pushed back on the activist ethos in newsrooms, blasted journalists that expect their work to be a reflection of personal politics, and acknowledged the Times went \u201ctoo far\u201d in 2020 and is now re-establishing norms in the wake of these \u201cexcesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a stunning moment.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the story\u00a0on MSNBC\u2019s Morning Joe<\/a>, Ben Smith described the Grey Lady as being \u201cfocused on dragging itself back from the brink.\u201d He said that \u201cwhat\u2019s happening inside the New York Times is a sense that, during particularly the summer of 2020, they aligned themselves too much with particularly the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.\u201d And that Khan considers it his job to pull the institution back.<\/p>\n

The context for Kahn\u2019s stance is\u00a0ongoing tensions between the Times and the White House<\/a>\u00a0(in part because the President won\u2019t grant the paper a sit-down interview), and comments from podcaster and former Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer in particular. The Pod Save America co-host\u00a0recently complained in a Substack post<\/a>\u00a0that the Times is \u201coften too worried about seeming balanced to truly articulate the danger of Trump.\u201d And that journalists \u201cdo not see their job as saving democracy or stopping an authoritarian from taking power.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Weekend reads: The American press gets its groove back U.S. media is ‘dragging itself back from the brink.’ Will Canada follow? Bettmann\/Getty Images A story broke last weekend that I\u2019ve been waiting a long time to see. In\u00a0an interview with Ben Smith at Semafor, Joe Kahn, the executive editor of The New York Times, effectively […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34610,462,1921,32393,827,6106],"class_list":["post-68258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-activist-ethos","tag-journalism","tag-new-york-times","tag-tara-henley","tag-united-states","tag-us-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68259,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68258\/revisions\/68259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}