As my professional career winds down I have often thought of what other careers I would have liked to pursue, and the one that keeps coming to the top of the list is political journalism. And then I think of who I would emulate in order to be considered an excellent journalist and I always think of Maggie Haberman first and foremost. Keep up the fantastic work Maggie, you are a treasure!!
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I can only imagine the workaholic lifestyle that is required to succeed at this level. I'd be curious to hear Maggie reflect on her work/life balance.
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@The Buddy
She does discuss this in the questions at the end. I found it really interesting.
I'd love to know if she would've preferred to cover a rational, professional president, someone who loved the American people and their Constitution more than he loved himself. I'm wondering if that sounds welcome and refreshing, or totally boring, to her.
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Maggie Haberman is probably one of the most influential people in the country. Much of what we've learned about how low and vile Trump is comes from her reporting. Every time you think he can't get worse, he raises the bar on cruelty, lies, dishonor, arrogance, ignorance, criminality, and immorality. It's hard to say whether he was worse in the past, or now.
I would have asked how MH handles despair, if she experiences it. I certainly do. Evil seems to have a stranglehold on this country.
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Thanks for hanging in and bringing us such useful and insightful info. And with humor too, which would escape my capabilities.
I could not withstand the onslaught and I am amazed you can--you deserve a sabbatical in 2020 I hope you have that opportunity.
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Thanks for hanging in and bringing us such useful and insightful info. And with humor too, which would escape my capabilities.
I could not withstand the onslaught and I am amazed you can--you deserve a sabbatical in 2020 I hope you have that opportunity.
This president's claims concerning the attacks on 2 ships while the Japanese Prime Minister visited Iran continues to baffle me why the NY Times didn't cover the contention made by every major news organization concerning Iran's claims they rescued 44 sailors.
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Commenters believe that Maggie Haberman is professional, objective, not biased against Trump or his administration.
But how do you explain when the White House played the Edelweiss song from the Sound of Music and she suggested that it was like a national anthem song of the Nazis? And so the president must be a Nazi?
Is her feelings against Trump so strong that she resorts to this? Please, Maggie, inform me if I am wrong here but I don’t think I am!!
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@David Tulanian: Edelweiss, the delicate and hard-to-find little plant was indeed a fav of the Nazis as a symbol of party purity and ethnicity. SS men used it battle as a talisman. Pure white, as in its etymology from Ger. "edel", honor or nobleness, and "Weiss", white or pure, as in ethnicity, has adorned many a non-Nazi but rather innocently nationalistic, traditional German. My sources include Ian Kershaw and other historians on Nazi matters, an ex-SS man I once knew, his Canadian daughter who climbed a tall peak to pick her edelweiss, and university colleagues who fled Nazism.
Now, did Trump know this and use the Nazi symbolism? Or did his workers? Who knows? If we asked, would DT or his deputies tell the truth? The musical made the song ubiquitous for years, but the flower symbol predates the song and carried nationalist, anti-foreigner connotations and to many it still does. To Trump? Gorka? Bannon? Alex Jones?
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Of all the stories that have been printed about President Trump, why did Ms. Habermann not persistantly dig into the story about how the whole Mueller investigation came about?
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@Len
Because it has been covered in depth by the Times already. Repeatedly. Use the search feature at the Times. Try “origin of the Mueller Investigation”.
Whatever you do, just don't normalize this clown!
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@Jerry too late.
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Thanks Maggie, you are a weathervane, in a storm.
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I went to college with Maggie for a year before we both transferred. She was so smart and entirely unpretentious, even at an age when most people (sadly, myself very much included) suffered a dearth of smarts and depth. I'm so glad she's come into her full powers and uses them for good, and in doing such great work. And hope 2020 sees a change of regime for our country, and a change of pace for Maggie.
Godspeed, Maggie Haberman!
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Maggie: Your fans are legion. We are here thinking about your stories and reflecting on their import even when you least expect it. Thank you.
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One of the best journalists working today. And my favorite writer.
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Ms Haberman's coverage of the Trump White House has been intelligent and valuable. Nepotism may or may not have played a role in the NYT's hiring her as a reporter for the paper that her father long served. (It sure prevails in the NYT's selection of publishers!) But her performance has rendered the concern moot.
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"Please briefly explain how you manage to do such an emotionally and professionally demanding job while you are the "father" of three children." Would anyone ask this question of a man? On another note, I cannot thank you enough for your dedication to the noble profession of reporting the news. Fact matter.
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White House correspondent for the New York Times- and so young! With so many young achievers, they have relatives who get them their jobs or pull strings for their success.
Not in Maggie's case.
You go girl!!!
Back in 2015, Maggie Haberman burst out laughing on national television when Keith Ellison suggested that Donald Trump could win the Republican nomination. So, who better to cover the Trump White House?
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It's nice to see the human being behind the articles. However, I still have criticism for the way the NYT covers the President. It can not be a mystery the way he controls the media with his constant barrage of made up stories and hyperbole and yet you and the rest cover it as if it is all so relevant. He still calls the tune and you all dance to it. At some point, you have to take a stand that is about truth and facts and stop the coverage of every utterance which serves to drown out the opposition. It enables him and his cadre of liars and corrupt cronies.
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"I think the most revealing bit of journalism about the president and The Times was an episode of The Daily podcast from earlier this year ... I would strongly encourage people to listen to it."
So, this was all essentially an advertisement for digital. Neat.
I don't envy Maggie even though she is doing God's work... What concerns me is if she might suffer PTSD after Trump is over. Yes, journalists like Maggie is tough as nail but they are still human, you know
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So many details and insights about Donald are filled in for me by you, all the while trying to remain objective, not easy in this case. I certainly admire the job you do for New Yorkers and the World. May you have a long career.
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“I try to read as much media across the board as possible, to see what topics different conservative or liberal outlets are discussing”
Me too. It can be jaw dropping to read the Fox or RedState version of news and opinion. I sometimes have shake my head so hard my eyeballs rattle. BUT. Reading conservative media has enlightened me a little bit, and I feel like I’m a little more more sympathetic in conversation with the deluded, the wrong-headed, or the angry. Reading ‘their’ side has also made me far more attuned to the language and bias in other media. Yes, folks, both sides are guilty though in different ways.
While the NYT or Wapo try to influence readers to think and act w benevolence and hope for the future (if only we fix enough stupidity) the conservative outlets hope to influence readers with hatred and disgust. I miss the golden days of Walter Cronkite.
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Thank you for graciously enduring the endless criticism you get for doing your best. Your pieces always shed light on the administration.
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Every politician I’ve ever covered has said things that aren’t true or exaggerated, but the scale here is quite different
So it’s not the lying of all politicians it’s the scale. What ever that is.
I’m glad she had cleared that up for us because I’ve always considered lying to be bad in of itself, nor scaled little lying, or scaled big lying. Let’s be honest in all probability we have never had a fully honest politician grace our shores. Looking at the current wannabes running, this streak is not likely to end.
Thanks, @Mike, for the false equivalence. Let me clear up the scale thing for you. As of today, President Trump has made 10,796 false or misleading claims. By any count, that is an order of magnitude more than previous presidents.
No, we've probably never had a fully honest politician. But now we can be sure that we've had a fully dishonest one.
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Continue to work on showing all of us and the world the importance of a free and unfettered press. This is one part of what makes America great.
The pen is mightier than the tank.
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Thank you!
I appreciate the work you are doing is hard on your family. But it is as essential to protecting our nation as any military person deployed away from home, maybe more so now.
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How can you be a WH Correspondent, live in NY, and only goes to Washington two to three times a month?
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@evric how often is trump in DC, not very often, he has spent nearly 200 days on his own properties outside of DC. Do you think she should literally follow donnie around to be able to write about him?
"I am no longer writing the book that I was under contract to write". what does that mean? the book contract is cancelled or you've finished writing it?
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@bill d have you seen the book published? Apparently due to a perceived conflict of interest the book was shelved if written.
@bill d: Ms. Haberman is not a sad writer who struggles with our language. With care, she wrote that syntactical, clear sentence which one is free to read. It needs no explanation, not one justifying that question. Any explanation would cloud what is clear. The rest of the issue are complainers who do not like clear English. They have an unworthy platform. Complain to sources who do not use clear English. They are easy to find. Complaining about clear English offends those who live for it.
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You are appreciated!
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@Tucson ... or not. She's one of the major reasons I unsubscribed.
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@Bob But you’re reading online? Come on.
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@Bob
Yet here you are.
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Disappointed by the normalizing of this unethical, criminal and unqualified administration. Do better.
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Lots of jobs are "unlike any other." Privilege can be blinding.
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@Chris,
but journalists these days are now pushed to not just cover stories but expose gross abuses of power on an hourly basis and basically save democracy.
So yeah, it is unlike any other job.
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@JA We don’t have a Democracy in the U.S. in ANY meaningful way. We live in a Republic (with an Electoral College, so we don’t even vote directly for President of the U.S.). We have private corporations, the DNC and RNC (they are literally private corporations), running the elections and Debates, and taking stunning amounts of money from wealthy individuals and large corporations. We need to stop calling this archaic and corrupt system a Democracy as that is a lie. I agree with your assessment of the unique and important role of journalists and journalism. I just wish we had more courageous journalists and news operations and a real Democracy.
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When asked about how you deal with raising 3 kids,
would have been nice if you had mentioned, if there's a man in your life, who helps out, sometimes. I know it's a personal
question, but according to some of your colleagues,
you are a "national treasure", and enquirey minds would like to know.
Cheers,
A.P.
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It’s okay for her to protect her and her family’s privacy.
Two things : YOU have my deepest sympathy. And, BRAVO.
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Thank you for your work, Maggie! You rock!
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While I find the Times' in depth investigative pieces not only commendable, but invaluable, Haberman's reports on Trump are completely dismissable. When asked about the differences between the current administration and the one preceding it, her answer, in so many words, is " good people on both sides. "
That's her take away from years of covering this man?
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@slagheap-She may be saying this so that she can preserve access to WH insiders.
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@slagheap - Far too soon to (completely) close doors.
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@Ann. And that makes it okay? I find that very manipulative.
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Whose idea was it to include the insulting work/mom balance question?
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@Lorem Ipsum That choice was Maggie Haberman's. The preface of the interview states that Maggie chose the questions to answer, out of all that were submitted.
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@Nancy Goodman
No, the intro states that "Maggie answered a selection of the questions, ..." but does not specify who selected them.
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I'm not sure if it's the politically surreal time we are living through, or if something else has shifted in my psyche, but I am paying a lot more attention not just to the news but also to WHO is delivering it. Haberman has her biases but she also tells a story about the Trump White House that is essential to our understanding of the peril our democracy is in. In short, she gets some of the truth out there. Don't shut this out. We need to listen. There's a nutcase in the White House and Haberman has found a way to help us come to grips with that fact, detail by detail, and fact by fact.
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Ms. Haberman, I attended your talk at the Buskirk-Chumley theater in Bloomington, Indiana, earlier this year, and I am a total fan girl. Keep it coming!
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Maggie is our eyes and ears. I am so grateful for her hard work and reporting.
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Thank you Ms. Haberman, for doing a good job! I always enjoy your pieces.
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