New York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger, in an interview to the Reuters Institute:

For example, in my country, there are a disproportionate number of conservative voters who will not trust any news source that says that Joe Biden was the rightful winner of the 2020 presidential election, and we can’t try to win those folks over and hedge our language. We are just stating the truth fully and plainly, but we are also doing that in a way that is unemotional. We are not anyone’s opposition and we’re not anyone’s lap dog.

We are going to continue to report fully and fairly, not just on Donald Trump but also on President Joe Biden. He is a historically unpopular incumbent and the oldest man to ever hold this office. We’ve reported on both of those realities extensively, and the White House has been extremely upset about it.

There is something sad, hilarious, ridiculous and revealing that the White House staff thinks it can whine its way to better coverage. This is a man whose job approval rating is less than half his 81 years of age. It’s absurd to expect the Times, or any other publication that covers the president, to avert its collective eyes from those facts.