Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
18 Feb 2021 Acquired The New York Times Company
“I think there might be more and more, David, exactly of what you're talking about, you got to pick and then there is less room or at least have a large addressable market as someone who is trying to be a centrist.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 18 Feb 2021
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- The New York Times Company
Transcript context
…Yup. I guess an F scenario for the future for The Times could be the hyper partisan environment that we've been in, that this is just the beginning, it gets worse and worse, and there literally is no room for anything in the middle. Whether you think The New York Times is the middle of the knot, it wants to be the middle and that is just an untenable position. It's so funny. Even today, I always thought it was a widely-held belief that The New York Times, at least during the Trump presidency, that a common perception is that it's left-leaning. This person who is left-leaning was like, what do you mean? They published that terrible Tom Cotton Op-Ed and they did all the stuff of Hillary's emails. They got Trump elected. I think there might be more and more, David, exactly of what you're talking about, you got to pick and then there is less room or at least have a large addressable market as someone who is trying to be a centrist. Yup. I hope that's not the case.…
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