New York Times under fire for spiking a Stephen Miller interview from its podcast

The June 19 episode of the New York Times' podcast "The Daily"  focused on the GOP’s controversial new policy of separating migrant families. Reporter Julie Hirschfeld Davis had actually interviewed White House policy adviser Stephen Miller, and she planned to use the audio from the interview on this morning’s show. But that’s not what happened. Instead, the episode features a little explanation at the beginning from Davis, who said the Times had planned use the audio “until I heard from the White House earlier today that they were not at all comfortable with us using that audio.” The issue is that Davis interviewed Miller a few weeks ago for a big story about the topic, but hadn’t discussed the other ways the audio could be used. 

Still, the White House appears to have wielded its influence in this case. “When they found out his voice was actually going to be on the podcast discussing this,” said Davis, “they were not happy about it so they asked us not to use it.” The Times did not have to say yes, yet it ultimately did.