Though The New York Times Company is public, all voting shares are controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger Family Trust.

A. Sulzberger is the chair, his daddy gave him the position

A Politico report detailed that Sulzberger has made a sit-down interview with President Joe Biden a priority for the newspaper, which claims to have interviewed every sitting president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. Despite efforts to secure an interview, including appeals from Sulzberger directly to Vice President Kamala Harris, the White House has not allowed the Times the same level of access to the president as it did during the Trump Administration. An anonymous Times journalist told Politico in 2024, "All these Biden people think that the problem is Peter Baker or whatever reporter they’re mad at that day ... It's A.G. [Sulzberger], he's the one who is pissed [that] Biden hasn't done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age."

I did also see this

According to anonymous sources within the newspaper's staff, upon taking his position in 2018 Sulzburger "told employees explicitly that his biggest concern was that the paper’s audience saw it as a 'liberal rag...' [his] vision for the paper is to change that perception and court conservative readers."

Maybe some combination of those two factors plus a little trust fund kiddy rage, Saltyberger using the outward reasoning of 'trying to court conservatives' as allowing open season on Joe (because he despises Joe not letting him be granted an interview)?

It is odd