Listen to ‘The Daily’: How Separating Migrant Families Became U.S. Policy

I get that the NY Times needs to balance unvarnished reporting with access to the White House. My opinion of Stephen Miller can't get any lower, so I don't feel I'm missing anything in the audio recordings. I'm a digital subscriber, but I'm not ready to threaten cancellation. I can't ignore the great non-political reporting done in the arts and sciences, along with criminal investigations. But I do keep count and lament: 1. A positive headline of Bernie Sanders turned negative in the course of a day, and under suspected influence from an opposing campaign. 2. Tepid reporting regarding Israeli attacks on unarmed Palestinians... at least in the beginning. 3. Jayson Blair, but was addressed. 4. This story. There's also the increasing failure to distinguish between being balanced and being neutral. Balanced tries to portray both sides as equally true. Neutral follows facts and reports on them, regardless of side.

I'm a little confused about why the audio of the interview with Stephen Miller wasn't aired. Was the interview originally conducted with the understanding that it would be aired? If that was the case, is it a standard practice to request that an interview not be aired after the fact? Why would the Times care if the White House didn't want it aired?

You caved to the White House on not airing the Stephen Miller interview??? Shaking my head in disbelief. Very disappointing. I was a daily listener. Think I'll take a break for a week or two.

Subscriber here. Please release the tape of this on-the-record interview with Stephen Miller.

Why did the Times acquiesce in the White House's displeasure with having audio of Stephen Miller in the Daily podcast? When I do recorded interviews I don't give the interviewee's organization veto power over how I use the recording if they have agreed to be recorded.

Why did you cave? He should be held accountable for what he says on the record.

Is the audio of the interview available?

Could someone, somewhere in the media at least mention, if not emphasize, that every asylum seeker from central America has passed through, apparently with full permission, a reasonably safe and beautiful country where the asylum seekers speak a common language with the native population. But apparently that country is not quite safe and beautiful enough. It certainly makes one wonder what the real motives are. And I guess that's not too hard to figure out.

It is particularly telling that Miller asserts that all democrats are nihilists as a response to arguments from democrats (and many republicans) that this so called "zero tolerance" immigration policy that is currently separating families at the border demonstrates a rejection of core western religious and moral principles. It suggests a unassailable belief that Miller's principles of nationalism are singularly true, while any countervailing views are per se false and would leave America without meaning. Miller's comments truly demonstrate the massive societal schism we are currently facing.

Dear Mr. Shear, I enjoy listening to "The Daily" podcasts. Today's episode on separating migrant families was informative as well as heart-breaking. However, I'm writing to ask about the information Ms. Davis shared at the beginning of the podcast. She stated that the original audio recording your staff had intended to use was not broadcast because the government was not comfortable with your doing so. To me this sounds like the journalists being forced to "hide" information at the request of the federal branch and is a violation of the Free Speech clause of the First Amendment. In light of two other recent stories in the NY Times about the Justice Department subpoenaing phone records, emails and other correspondence from journalists, I would like to know how your journalists decided not to air the original audio in this case. I am concerned that the government is trying to limit the "fourth estate's" right to investigate matters and share information with the public. Thank you for your reply.