Marty Baron
speaker
584 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5 Feb
Marty Baron’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, when you just start with foreign coverage, look, hardly anybody's going to be left in the Middle East, from what I can tell.
That's crazy.
I mean, when you look at this administration's policies, at the top of the agenda is what's happening around the world, what's happening in Venezuela, what's happening in the Middle East, what's happening in Ukraine.
uh fraction the fractures with uh nato all of that i mean these are really really important stories and we need people on the ground to tell these stories the same is true just take sports i mean certainly people are really interested in what's happening with their teams but the post also has a tremendous investigative reporters for covering sports and they and that is an area that has a tremendous amount of money there's a lot of corruption uh and somebody needs to cover that and the post has done an exceptional job of that
They're not going to cover the arts the way that they covered it before.
That's tremendously important.
And then there's their own community.
And I think it's important to remember that in Washington, look, who covered the riots of January 6th?
It was the local staff of the Washington Post.
A lot of what happens in Washington is news of national significance.
And not only do they have to cover the District of Columbia, but they have to cover Virginia and Maryland as well.
How do you do that with so few people?
I don't even know.
So I think a tremendous amount is going to be lost as they as they essentially engage in a retreat here.
Thank you.
Thanks for your interest.
I think I would, actually, because I think I did a good job while I was there, and I think that was appreciated, and I was supported by the owner and the publisher at the time. Obviously, some things have changed, but I think it would be very risky for them to fire me And the news department continues to maintain its independence from the owner.
The owner has not interfered in the news coverage as far as I know. And I think all of us would know because there would be an explosive reaction within the newsroom if he had interfered. So, yes, I think I would keep my job.
Well, I think what they're afraid of is they're afraid of being made a target by Trump, that he's going to do severe damage to their other commercial interests. I think in the case of Bezos, he's afraid of the impact that Trump can have on Amazon, which has enormous contracts, particularly in the area of cloud computing services with the federal government.
And he has a private commercial space venture called Blue Origin, which had fallen well behind SpaceX, the Elon Musk company, but was at the point of launching a rocket into orbit and then being able to start to compete really with SpaceX. It has now launched that rocket successfully into orbit, but it's highly dependent on contracts with the federal government.
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