The Daily

I used to be a dedicated listener. But it’s honestly just been: Ukraine, Israel’s various conflicts, Trump, repeat. I’m not in any way saying that it isn’t important and even vitally urgent to tell these stories. …I am saying there are additional stories to be found and told which engage every day Americans and which concern their daily lives. By the way I can’t help but agree with the prior commenter. I’m a democrat but even I struggle with Asted’s bias. I would love to hear more stories ***outside*** all those partisan lines.

Now that the election is over, can the Times please move past Asted Herndon? I know that the NYT has a liberal bent, but Asted displays not even the pretence of impartiality. Liberal social media informed talking points that substitute for real political analysis are not why I listen to the show. /// The coverage of the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Supreme Court vacancy has been nothing short of excellent. Keep this up! Truly superb coverage of the Breonna Taylor case by Rukmini Callimachi. Carefully worded and detailed. The Beirut episode: remember a time when journalism was about other people’s stories? This navel gazing approach to a tragedy that affected hundreds of thousands of people is brutal. I’m not opposed to hearing a little of the journalist’s experience as a way to set up the story, but there are so many -other- stories to tell; why is the main focus the journalist’s experience? The Facebook episode was so weak. Concluding that Facebook must be beholden to conservatives by saying that its most engaged posts are conservative without a) examining and comparing the most engaged posts on Twitter or b) considering the ideological beliefs of Zuckerberg prior to this moment, which have always leaned toward not playing moderator and taking an expansive approach to free expression is just bad journalism. I’m open to the idea and am no fan of Facebook, but this is what happens when a reporter puts a satisfying narrative ahead of interrogating the subject. Remarkable that no time is being devoted to the Bolton revelations. I remember when this podcast was about news; it’s now become more like a magazine. The Systems That Protect the Police: this is why we listen to The Daily. Timely analysis of a troubling and complex news event. Coverage of the Chinese lab theory of coronavirus spent about 15 seconds discussing what scientists have to say about it. There is a tremendous amount of scientific scepticism about the theory, and the probability that it came from a lab is infinitesimally small. If the intelligence community was promoting ‘evidence’ of the lab theory, one suspects that the NYT would report it with the same level of credibility as the WMD theory in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.

Loved the kpop trained Rose episode. The Dailey doing something out of norm. I do not mind episodes like this one the weekend

It’s not like there are far more important issues that women around the world, especially in the US, are facing. It’s this kind of topic that gives people the impression that NYT is out of touch.