Jonathan Swan

Everyone's riding tricycles now.

The car business is falling apart.

I'm going to look for a better life because things here are really bad.

I'm Jonathan Swan.

I'm a reporter at The New York Times.

You know, when people think about the media, your favorite podcast, you know, cable news panels and different things, I think it's fair to say that myself and my reporting colleagues at The New York Times exist at the more unglamorous end of that spectrum.

Our job is to dig out the facts that provide a foundation for these conversations.

These facts don't just come out of the ether.

It requires reporters to spend hours upon hours talking to sources, digging up documents.

Also, if the story is a story that a powerful person doesn't want in print, there's threats of lawsuits and all kinds of things.

So it's a really massive operation.

There aren't that many places anymore who invest at that level in journalism.

Without a well-funded and rigorous free press, people in power have much more leeway to do whatever the heck it is that they want to do.

If you think that it's worthwhile to have journalists on the job digging out information, you can subscribe to The New York Times because without you, none of us can do the work that we do.

Great to be back.

Great to be back.

I don't want to be like the Australian talking about American history here, but obviously... But here you are. Yeah, yeah. I mean, obviously, the benchmark is FDR's first 100 days where he pushed, I think it was 15 major bills through Congress and created a legacy that we still live with.

I don't want to be like the Australian talking about American history here, but obviously... But here you are. Yeah, yeah. I mean, obviously, the benchmark is FDR's first 100 days where he pushed, I think it was 15 major bills through Congress and created a legacy that we still live with.

So ever since then, presidents have used this, as Maggie said, artificial construct to measure their self-worth at an early point in the administration.

So ever since then, presidents have used this, as Maggie said, artificial construct to measure their self-worth at an early point in the administration.