Claire Malone

It talks about, you know, her colleagues bullying her and that, you know, she would say that that environment really affected her.

But she's also really making this argument that The Times is essentially degrading itself emotionally.

by giving in to the liberal political leanings of its staff, that it is sort of, you know, it's mediocre to sort of succumb to all of that.

both.

You could almost summarize it as the free press is going to talk about, frankly, a lot of cultural issues.

And it is going to speak to a broader audience that's not just, you know, your old white guys, right?

Her editorial posture as sort of being open to a lot of points of views.

The kind of, in a genuine way, I think this sort of like, well, we're asking questions, you know?

Like, let's talk about what is now the Maha movement.

Let's

Talk about COVID skepticism.

You know, someone had a really great phrase when talking to me about it in the Biden era when the free press, I think, really kind of had the juice.

And it had a lot of sort of, you know, antipods, say, of America Democrats is what this person said.

And I think what's interesting about a contrarian publication like the free press is that during the Biden era, it was sort of it could be it could.

It could punch against Biden.

It could punch against wokeism.

And then during the campaign and now during the Trump administration, it has gotten quite Trump friendly.

Very.

Very.

There's a Substack writer who did his own analysis of their coverage of the 2024 campaign.