Adam. Im sure if you ask most people to write a book on their place of work, they would rather do just about anything else. So what induced you to want to write a book about the times . Good question. First, thanks for having me on the show. You know, i have always admired and wanted to work for the New York Times since i was a student in college and one of the books i read is as a college student, i think pretty early on was gay talese, his book at the times, and its something i always thought about the important you raise a really good point in your question. Im writing a history. So basically this book goes from 1977 through 2016. There are a bunch of advantages of that. For one thing, im not, for the most part, writing about people who are there, or to put it more directly. Writing for people i work with or about a few exceptions. But generally thats really the case. But more than that, in terms of approaching a project like this, there was a level of candor from the people that i
Times. He is interviewed by journalist jon allsop. After words is a weekly Interview Program with relevant guess who was top nonfiction authors about their latest work. Work, they would rather do just about anything else. So what induced you to want to write a book about the times . Good question. First, thanks for having me on the show. You know, i have always admired and wanted to work for the New York Times since i was a student in college and one of the books i read is as a college student, i think pretty early on was gay talese, his book at the times, and its something i always thought about the important you raise a really good point in your question. Im writing a history. So basically this book goes from 1977 through 2016. There are a bunch of advantages of that. For one thing, im not, for the most part, writing about people who are there, or to put it more directly. Writing for people i work with or about a few exceptions. But generally thats really the case. But more than that
b6 hello america i am mark levine and this is life, liberty and levine. but we do in a constitutional republic when we have a media that dresses up as the free press but really is not what was intended by our framers of the constitution. the press is free but the press is free to live, to censor, to cover up, to omits, two projects, to create narrative sets with the american press has done that is what they ve done to donald trump. that s what they ve done to conservatives that s what they do about everything. it is a radical element within our society that s part of the democrat party and it is part of the american marxist and now now/islamicist mentality. i do not need to do a whole lot to prove it. just spend a few hours doing research wrote an entire book on it on freedom of the press but i want to get into some specifics with you because at times like this when there is an obvious right versus wrong, good versus evil people trying to exterminate other people. at a
b6 hello america i am mark levine and this is life, liberty and levine. but we do in a constitutional republic when we have a media that dresses up as the free press but really is not what was intended by our framers of the constitution. the press is free but the press is free to live, to censor, to cover up, to omits, two projects, to create narrative sets with the american press has done that is what they ve done to donald trump. that s what they ve done to conservatives that s what they do about everything. it is a radical element within our society that s part of the democrat party and it is part of the american marxist and now now/islamicist mentality. i do not need to do a whole lot to prove it. just spend a few hours doing research wrote an entire book on it on freedom of the press but i want to get into some specifics with you because at times like this when there is an obvious right versus wrong, good versus evil people trying to exterminate other people. at a
b6 hello america i am mark levine and this is life, liberty and levine. but we do i a constitutional republic when we have a media that dresses up as the free press but really is not what was intended by our framers of the constitution. the press is free but the press is free to live, to censor, to cover up, to omits, two projects, to create narrative sets with the american press has done that is what they ve done to donald trump. that s what they ve done to conservatives that s what they do about everything. it is a radical element within our society that s part of the democrat party and it is part of the american marxist and no now/islamicist mentality. i do not need to do a whole lot to prove it. just spend a few hours doing research wrote an entire book on it on freedom of the press but i want to get into some specifics with you because at times like this when there is an obvious right versus wrong, good versus evil people trying to exterminate other people. at a ti