Topic: Marty Baron

Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron speaks at the Aspen Institute about maintaining objectivity. He claims the paper has layers of editing to check for bias but emphasizes that their primary mission is to report "what the evidence shows." The hosts characterize his defense as a "fake news" wrapper for inherent institutional bias.

A retrospective look at the 2000 U.S. Presidential election features a clip of former Miami Herald editor Marty Baron discussing the paper's independent recount of Florida ballots. The recount concluded that George W. Bush would have won under most standards, contradicting a popular media narrative that Al Gore was the true winner.