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Oct 31, 2026
Bobby CapucciHOST
Sass, who had pressed the Justice Department for more than three years to investigate the handling of Epstein's charges, demanded that the agency release the report.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Although the department didn't do so, the Miami Herald and its parent company, McClatchy, obtained a copy on their own.
Bobby CapucciHOST
So that report is included in the article.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Obviously, when you click on the link, you'll be able to go read this article and follow the hyperlinks to the actual document so you can check them out for yourself.
Fred GlassGUEST
There've been rare moments, but if you were reading the New York Times in any of Bernie's runs, either of Bernie's runs for president, you know what they were attempting to do to him.
Fred GlassGUEST
And the same thing's happening now to Mom Donnie and Here in California, yeah, there's one chain, the McClatchy chain, the Sacramento Bee and Fresno Bee and a number of other papers that shocked the hell out of me and came out in favor of the billionaire tax.
Fred GlassGUEST
Other than that, you look at the news coverage for the most part, including this most recent story that you mentioned about Zuckerberg.
Fred GlassGUEST
It's an incomprehensible story to me because they keep talking in the article about how the board of Meta was so worried that he was going to move out of his, sell his house and move out of it.
Tom RosenstielGUEST
The Washington Post, of course, laid off a hundreds of people this year.
Tom RosenstielGUEST
And the McClatchy chain, which is a California-based chain originally, announced 30% layoffs just a couple months ago.
Tom RosenstielGUEST
But at the same time, There are also more sprouts of innovation occurring in the field than I have ever seen in my, as you explained, very long career.
Tom RosenstielGUEST
It's the crisis that's driving the innovation.
Larry ElderHOST
We've talked about this for a long time.
Larry ElderHOST
James Asher is the Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief of the McClatchy newspaper chain.
Larry ElderHOST
He publicly said that during the 2008 race between Hillary and Obama for the Democratic nomination, Hillary's hatchet man, Sidney Blumenthal, came to his office, he has his business card, and said, Obama is from Africa, you should check that out.
Larry ElderHOST
And Asher said he sent a reporter to Africa to interview a bunch of people, and he found out that Obama was not from Africa.
Michelle KaufmanGUEST
Yeah, it's a very sad time in our industry, to be perfectly honest with you.
Michelle KaufmanGUEST
You know, I was part of a massive layoff at the Miami Herald, the McClatchy Corporation, decided in September to lay off 90 people across all their papers and 31 out of 80 at the Miami Herald.
Michelle KaufmanGUEST
So almost half the newsroom was let go.
Michelle KaufmanGUEST
I had been at the company for 37 years.
Michelle KaufmanGUEST
And unfortunately, you know, people are losing their jobs.
Michelle KaufmanGUEST
Newspapers are deciding to do, you know, to just do away with entire beats, with entire sections.
Michelle KaufmanGUEST
You know, the Miami Herald is now the only McClatchy newspaper that has an NBA writer.
Michelle KaufmanGUEST
which is crazy.
Alan DershowitzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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Larry ElderHOST
Asher is the Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief of the McClatchy newspaper chain.
Larry ElderHOST
He publicly said that during the 2008 race between Hillary and Obama for the Democratic nomination, Hillary's hatchet man, Sidney Blumenthal, came to his office, he has his business card, and said, Obama is from Africa, you should check that out.
Larry ElderHOST
And Asher said he sent a reporter to Africa to interview a bunch of people, and he found out that Obama was not from Africa.
speaker_57NARRATOR
It just keeps coming in.
speaker_57NARRATOR
McClatchy's reporting right now that special counsel Robert Mueller has evidence.
speaker_57NARRATOR
that Trump's personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, secretly made a late summer trip to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign.
speaker_57NARRATOR
According to two sources familiar with the matter, confirmation of the trip would affirm part of the Steele dossier that Cohen strategized in Prague with a powerful Kremlin figure about Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
long? I'll tell you very — well, just very simple to say.
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Sidney Blumenthal, works for the campaign and close very close friend of secretary clinton and her campaign manager patty doyle went to during the campaign her campaign against president obama fought very hard and you can go look it up and you can check it out and if you look at cnn this past week patty solis doyle was on wolf blitzer saying that this happened, Blumenthal sent McClatchy, a highly respected reporter at McClatchy, to Kenya to find out about it.
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They were pressing it very hard.
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
She failed to get the birth certificate.
Andrew HendersonCORRESPONDENT
What do you see as the greatest value of local news?
Alex EquistoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When you have a hedge fund like McClatchy coming in and buying a bunch of local papers, local news on its own anymore is not necessarily a big revenue driver, but it is a community necessity.
Alex EquistoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We are, despite maybe what elected leaders in this country will say, journalism exists for the community that it serves.
Alex EquistoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Our goal is to shore at its best shed light on corruption of all kinds.
Andrew HendersonCORRESPONDENT
Earlier this year, the company unveiled an internal AI tool to generate and summarize different versions of stories initially written by actual human reporters.
Andrew HendersonCORRESPONDENT
And this effort from the company required... reporters to share bylines with this AI tool, which is to say this artificial intelligence tool would basically spin off a story a reporter had written, and then that reporter's byline would go on the AI generated story, which the reporter themselves did not write that version.
Andrew HendersonCORRESPONDENT
And now I know many unionized newsrooms in McClatchy, including the Herald-Leader, pushed back on that effort.
Andrew HendersonCORRESPONDENT
You know, where do you see the use of AI in any form or fashion in journalism? Is there a place for it? Or is it just something that we will inevitably use until a company or a hedge fund says, well, now we're just going to rely on this thing to do the job you had?
Tom MartinHOST
What is lost is not only community memory, but mutual help, companionship, local culture, and a shared sense of belonging.
Tom MartinHOST
In September, McClatchy Media made deep cuts at newspapers around the country, including the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Tom MartinHOST
Among those losing her job was reporter Alex Akisto, who spent seven years at the paper covering subjects including public health, politics, and eastern Kentucky.
Tom MartinHOST
Alex Akisto joins us.
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