The great tabloids were always driven by a sense of outrage, a sense of righteous indignation...and had this sensibility of, like, there are people out there that are trying to screw you - and we're going expose them for it. — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
Anything that I'm doing I think I always come at it from an outsider perspective. The first like real front page story that I had for the Times was about how after decades of battles over public restrooms in New York City, effectively chain stores had become the public restroom of choice for New Yorkers, it's sort of a silly… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share
To me the sort of like, the ethos, if you will, of like tabloid is like Daily News in the 1970s. It's a news organization that thinks of its mission to speak directly to people who are kind of , the people who are sort of the foundation of the American workforce or were at one time. What I love… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share
I think everybody's talking about like facts and truth and you know like that 'We're here to fact check' and all of that, that's… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
Ideology to me is fundamentally is an elite pursuit. I mean most people are just not all that interested in single payer vs. government pay ... they're very interested in you know, 'Wait, are there going to be death panels.' But that's all a creation of this like hothouse media and politics environment. So maybe if humanism is an ideology… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share
My parents were adherents of the Baha'i faith, which is sort of, I can't think of the best way to describe it, but it… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
I think all of us in the pursuit of more perfect version of the truth and the story need to reckon with what we… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition. — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
Jim Rich is many different things but he has a great combination of a kind of old school tabloid reporter and editor's sense for… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
I have a perhaps naive point of view informed by my own kind of snowflake-in-the-unique-sense rather than the political sense, personal story. I mean… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
The level of dependence on government among rural populations is actually extraordinary. They suffer even more when that assistance is taken away because they… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
The New York Times I think really is the gold standard of a certain type of journalism and in some ways it's the most… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
For us what we're trying to do is find the right balance of creating a space for emotion that leads to a sense of… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
