Dean Baquet: 'Journalism Is Better Than it Ever Was'

New York Times executive editor sounds a note of optimism in New York magazine cover story.

NYMagJuly25August7CoverThe title of New York magazine’s cover story is “The Case Against the Media. By The Media.” But one of the people not making that case is New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet.

The first quote pulled from Baquet’s interview and dropped into the main article is about the unnatural tone of discourse promulgated by cable news. But if you click into the full transcript of Baquet’s conversation with national affairs editor Gabriel Sherman, it’s a different story.

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