A New York Times journalist tells Politico that publisher Arthur G Sulzberger is salty that President Joe Biden won’t sit down for an interview with the paper and as such is the driving force behind all the obnoxious, both-sidesy bullshit that has been its brand for the last few years.
“All these Biden people think that the problem is Peter Baker or whatever reporter they’re mad at that day. It’s [Sulzberger]. He’s the one who is pissed [that] Biden hasn’t done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age,” the unnamed journalist said.
The quote is kind of an understated indictment of the Times’s cuntish entitlement tucked into a lengthy-ish piece about the friction between the administration and the paper. Without getting too much into the weeds of the increasingly unsubtle failures to actually properly balance the coverage, we’ll just steal a line from the brilliant NYT Pitchbot summarizing the culture: “It’s important to write more articles that conservatives would like, even though conservatives don’t read our paper.”