News releases on the New York Times Co. website generally announce promotions, new products, awards and the like. So the statement from a Times spokesperson posted to the site on April 25 stood out: “For anyone who understands the role of the free press in a democracy, it should be troubling that President Biden has so actively and effectively avoided questions from independent journalists during his term,” said the release, which followed a Politico article about a beef between the White House and the Times.
Those “independent journalists” include Times journalists, who have sought an interview with the president, with no luck whatsoever. But the newspaper’s statement made clear that it wasn’t lobbying just for itself. Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger, said the Times, has “repeatedly urged the White House to have the president sit down with The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNN and other major independent news organizations that millions of Americans rely on to understand their government.”
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