Dean Baquet and Marty Baron, the Executive Editors of the New York Times and the Washington Post respectively, join David for the Axe Files on CNN to discuss the challenges of covering the Trump presidency, the unprecedented attacks on the free press, the power of journalism to change history, and the trajectory of their storied careers from reporters to editors.
- The fourth estate is one of the pillars of a vibrant democracy. It is also facing 'disruption', from both within and from outside.
- One good development is reduced dependency on advertisers, and on subscribers. One headache less. But that shift has not happened in a market like India, worlds largest and also a vibrant democracy.
- Free press is perhaps under threat across the globe, including in some of the best and biggest democracies?
- Fake news to deliberately telling lies are some of the recent developments, among the political leaders. The common man is definitely confused.
Some of the political leaders we complaint about, they are merely metaphors.
A question to ask is what is my role in this? Do I remain a mute spectator or do something about it, however small. For example, be a responsible citizen? We owe it to future generations. We got to strengthen some of our important institutions, judiciary, media, education, art, etc.
We can't expect someone else to do our work. It is our future, the future of our country, our kids' future.
We got to also ensure true, selfless, visionary, transformational leaders are in charge, in all areas of human endeavour.
When will we see such conversations among our own senior media people?
When will we see such conversations among our own senior media people?
Dean Baquet & Marty Baron from The Axe Files with David Axelrod in #Podcasts. https://itunes.apple.com/
