Tue Jul 4, 2023 – 12:44 pm EDT
(RealClearWire) — Last month, the economist Jeffrey Sachs appeared on the Substack podcast Nonzero, hosted by the writer Robert Wright, to discuss American foreign policy failures in the post-Cold War world. Wright asked Sachs if he felt American journalism is in decline. Sachs – who, as the head of multiple U.N. non-profits and director of Columbia’s Center for Sustainable Development, is one of the most institutionally recognized figures in public intellectual life – said that it absolutely had, and then shared an anecdote.
“I had a chat with a longtime friend of mine… a senior reporter at one of the most important newspapers,” he said, “and I said to him, ‘When I was young, I turned to your paper because of Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and I loved it.’” According to Sachs, this nameless friend, who in a later appearance Sachs would identify as a senior New York Times reporter, replied, “That paper is so dead and gone, Jeff. You have to understand that.”
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Sachs spoke with the reporter last September. The issue
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