Dean Baquet: 'Trump Is the Best Thing to Happen to the Times' Subscription Strategy'

The Times executive editor is making lemonade out of Trump's anti-Times tweets

When AdFreak described earlier today President Trump’s reaction–in tweet form, naturally–to the New York Times ad spot that will air at the Oscar’s tonight, the Times had yet to respond.

Fortunately, Times executive editor Dean Baquet had already been scheduled to appear on CNN’s Reliable Sources, and host Brian Stelter had a chance to ask him about Trump’s latest “failing New York Times” tweet, a phrase Trump has tweeted out more than 50 times, as Stelter pointed out.

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