Marty Baron

of any vision of that sort.

I did not hear a contemporary vision for the Washington Post.

I heard the word reset.

I heard the word restructuring, but all I saw was retreat.

Well, look, I mean, we live in a very polarizing time.

There's no question about that.

I think for a news organization with the history and heritage of the Washington Post, it's the lines should be to the facts wherever they lead.

And a primary responsibility for

Perhaps, I mean, the primary responsibility of a news organization, particularly one like The Post, is to hold its government accountable, to find out what's actually happening in the government, to dig beneath the surface, to look behind the curtain, to do what the founders of this country expected of the press, the reason they provided for independent and free press in the First Amendment.

which was to examine its public characters.

And so that's what the Post has historically done.

I mean, Watergate is, of course, a primary example of that.

I think we did that well during the first Trump administration as well.

And that's why we've got a lot of support from readers.

We need to continue doing that.

And it's not a matter of I don't think one uses a political calculus.

And for a news organization like the Post, I mean, there are many different kinds of news organizations.

Some were advocacy oriented, some leaning left, right, what have you.

But for the post, I think it is, you know, you need to keep your eye on what's really important.

And that is digging into what people of power in this country are doing, because what they do can affect the lives of ordinary people and does affect the lives of ordinary people.