Jef Tiedrich - top NY Times editor: 'covering the next Trump presidency is going to be awesome'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Joe Kahn, the newsroom editor of The New York Times, stunned the shit out of all of us the other day when he boldly claimed that democracy could go fuck itself sideways, it wasn’t the Times’ job to defend it.

well, he’s baaaaack. in a long interview published yesterday in the New Yorker, Joe fielded the following question:

If Trump wins a second term, can you outline how the Times plans to cover that? How are you thinking about this potential norm-breaking period?

Fasten your seat belts. If Trump wins again, the New York Times will be committed to covering every aspect of that story as it unfolds. It would be, as our reporting shows, a disruptive Presidency if he wins. We will have a full-time job covering the implications of that. And we’ll need a team of people who are geared up, as in the first term, but even more so, for a very disruptive presence in the White House. And what we’ll do is we’ll show up and we’ll do our jobs.

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/top-ny-times-editor-covering-the

[Girard442]

1. That makes all carbon-based lifeforms look bad.

[Bobstandard]

2. Sorry pal. You're going to jail

Kahn misjudges Trumps antipathy for the media, journalists, and the NYT in particular.

[The Magistrate]

3. The Man Makes Pollyanna Seem A Cold, Clear-Eyed Thinker By Compare

He'll be lucky he doesn't wind up floating in the East River, and some of his team, all geared up and ready, are sure to catch bad beatings.


"This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around."

[Hekate]

7. Sir...

[Skittles]

4. if you fuckers had DONE your fucking jobs

someone like Trump could have never have gotten NEAR the fucking White House

[Paladin]

5. Fuck you where you BREATHE, Joe Kahn.

If there's another trump regime, the news stories will write themselves, with minimal journalistic effort---and THAT'S what dipshits like Kahn are after.

[shrike3]

9. There will likely be suppression of press freedoms.

Mr. Kahn will have far less fun than he thinks he will.

[appalachiablue]

6. Since the editor doesn't believe in democracy maybe he needs to consider

relocating, to Argentina or Hungary.

[shrike3]

8. Sounds thrilled, doesn't he? Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

He has no clue, does he, about what happens to the press in an autocracy?