General Discussion

A New York Times reporter said that their boss, publisher AG Sulzberger, is "pissed" that President Joe Biden hasn't done any interviews and "quietly encourages all of the tough reporting on his age."

“All these Biden people think that the problem is Peter Baker or whatever reporter they’re mad at that day,” one Times journalist said. “It’s A.G. He’s the one who is pissed [that] Biden hasn’t done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age," Politico reported.

Negative, obsessive coverage about the age of one candidate while normalizing the criminally indicted candidate who incited an attack against his own country because a person is resentful that they aren't getting access isn't giving "objectivity." The emotionally-centered coverage of Biden is apparent to many readers.

The Times have attempted to get President Biden to give them an exclusive interview for years to no avail. "In Sulzberger’s view, according to two people familiar with his private comments on the subject, only an interview with a paper like the Times can verify that the 81-year-old Biden is still fit to hold the presidency." Indeed, "Sulzberger himself was part of a group from the Times that sat down with Trump, who gave the paper several interviews despite his rantings about its coverage. If Trump could do it, Sulzberger believes, so can Biden."

They report that the Biden administration respects the Times as the paper of record, but see it as failing to meet this specific (encroaching autocracy, my words) challenge to American democracy and is resentful over coverage they see as catering to elites while they are a working class administration, trying to lift up those who have been forgotten.