I thought it was about holding truth to power, and helping to inform the public about things that impact their daily existence. Silly me.
A.G.: "So our job is to help give the staff confidence to do those stories that explore unpopular positions and wade into controversial areas that challenge conventional wisdom." reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/new-yor...
Sulzberger will deliver the 2024 Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March. In this exclusive interview, he discusses his role in transforming the newspaper and preserving its values.
I remember they briefly sent A.G. to the national desk and he had to do his time in the journalism trench by covering the mysterious "Midwest" with its many diners full of real Americans.
So he acknowledges that popularity is the driver.
How does that old quotation go? " Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed (because its demonstrably incorrect and also virulently racist and transphobic and besides all that it’s source is a goddamned 4chan thread): everything else is public relations"
A.G. once basically said at an All Hands that NYT would avoid taking positions that would limit their access and told a story of a Guardian reporter who was banned from an Exxon press event after The Guardian stated plainly their position was climate change was real and oil companies are to blame
Stop subscribing is the only way to get change. Subscribers embolden the paper.
When people have power they like to think that it is the same thing as truth.
"Our industry needs to think bigger, not harder"
It's about making the case for Nazis. Nazis will definitely affect people's daily existence.
Yeah. What he's spouting is the sort of "galaxy brain" thinking that undercuts the fundamental missions of journalism. So frustrating.
Goose yelling: what conventional wisdom, MFer??? I bet they're not challenging conventional wisdom about capitalism or the carceral state