jane coaston

Sometimes there's no amount of therapy that's going to fix your relationship with your job. Sometimes your company's culture might be irreparably toxic. And also, sometimes you're just... bored. But when should you cut bait and move on? Jane Coaston, host of the New York Times podcast The Argument, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer listeners' questions about whether it's time to quit.

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The media today has a profound credibility problem.

I recently interviewed Jane Coaston of The New York Times. She was candid in her answers to a long string of my questions about her “intuitions” about the views and votes of the Manhattan-Beltway media elites. 

Coaston assumes exactly what the vast majority of Donald Trump voters believe: The news media is, as I like to say, “far, far, far left and an extension of the Democratic Party.” 

Some years ago, longtime Post reporter, now with the New York Times, Thomas Edsall told me that Democrats outnumbered Republicans in newsrooms by a margin of between 15 and 25 to 1. That was in 2006.

Judging by Coaston’s guesses, that margin has gotten even more lopsided today.

This isn’t a plea for fairness. It’s a plea for change. Hire a hundred more Coastons—and demand the same sort of rigorous candor and disclosure from them about their views—and trust will rebuild. 

It’s the denial of deep bias that is cancerous.

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The media today has a profound credibility problem.

I recently interviewed Jane Coaston of The New York Times. She was candid in her answers to a long string of my questions about her “intuitions” about the views and votes of the Manhattan-Beltway media elites. 

Coaston assumes exactly what the vast majority of Donald Trump voters believe: The news media is, as I like to say, “far, far, far left and an extension of the Democratic Party.” 

Some years ago, longtime Post reporter, now with the New York Times, Thomas Edsall told me that Democrats outnumbered Republicans in newsrooms by a margin of between 15 and 25 to 1. That was in 2006.

Judging by Coaston’s guesses, that margin has gotten even more lopsided today.

This isn’t a plea for fairness. It’s a plea for change. Hire a hundred more Coastons—and demand the same sort of rigorous candor and disclosure from them about their views—and trust will rebuild. 

It’s the denial of deep bias that is cancerous.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.