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Sezin Öney, originally from Turkey, is based in Budapest and Istanbul. She her journalism career as a foreign news reporter in 1999 and she turned into political analysis as a columnist since 2007. Her interest in her main academic subject area of populism was sparked almost decade ago; and now she focuses specifically on populist leadership, and populism in Turkey and Hungary. She studied international relations, nationalism, international law, Jewish history, comparative politics and discourse analysis across Europe.
Trump Vs. The Times: Inside An Off-The-Record Meeting
So, a meeting took place between Donald Trump and the "fake news media". On July 20th, 2018, media owner A. G. Sulzberger visited the Oval Office at the invitation of President Donald Trump. Arthur Gregg Sulzberger is the publisher of The New York Times. He is the son of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., the chairman of The New York Times Company and the preceding publisher of The New York Times. He became the Times' publisher on January 1, 2018.
The meeting was held "off the record". Sulzberger went to the session accompanied by James Bennet, the editorial-page editor of the New York Times. According to the New Yorker article written by David Remnick:
[t]he meeting, which Trump clearly intended as a way both to introduce himself to Sulzberger and to complain about coverage, became, in the course of more than an hour, something a great deal more revealing.
And of course, it became revealing by the way of Twitter messages, not through a New York Times article.
Remnick goes on:
The President broke the off-record agreement nine days later by tweeting that he and Sulzberger had talked about “the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, ‘Enemy of the People.’ Sad!” Sulzberger fired back with a statement saying that he went to the meeting expressly to push back on the President’s “deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric,” which has proved “not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.
Sad! But for whom?
The New York Times presented its own version of the news with an "objective angle". The article by Mark Landler reads as follows:
President Trump and the publisher of The New York Times, A. G. Sulzberger, engaged in a fierce public clash on Sunday over Mr. Trump’s threats against journalism, after Mr. Sulzberger said the president misrepresented a private meeting and Mr. Trump accused The Times and other papers of putting lives at risk with irresponsible reporting.
Maybe the intention was the "fierce clash" in the first place.
