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Journalists in the digital age should, within their means, enable safe spaces for public debate—acting as conversation leaders,87 information verifiers and amplifiers of varied perspectives.
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
“Off the record, I don’t know that I can cut [the Journal’s] profits at all….But if you show a newspaper as unfriendly and having a reason for being antagonistic, you can take the sting out of what it says about you. I think I can convince a lot of people that they can’t believe what they read in the Journal.”
Jon Meacham • The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
I’d protest that this book has never been about opposing the New York Times but about pursuing the same mission to which the paper is dedicated—unearthing the truth. But no matter how wholehearted it was, the strength of that argument could not overcome an evidently widespread fear of the cultural and political behemoth that is the New York Times.
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
We learned this about platforms a long time ago: following the old newspaper schematic, they aren’t the printing presses, but rather the assignment editors.