The description by @benyt of the NYT’s current model & future trajectory — “beholden to the views of left-leaning subscribers” that “may yet push it into a narrower and more left-wing political lane”: a US version of the Guardian — seems true & important.
nytimes.com/2021/02/14/bus…
nytimes.com/2021/02/14/bus…
Most corporate media — for both ideological and financial reasons — has become an indistinguishable mass of liberal orthodoxies, incapable and unwilling to publish much that challenges let alone offends standard establishment liberal sensibilities.
I don't understand the controversy around @Benyt's observation that the NYT is "more beholden to the views of left-leaning subscribers" & that will worsen.
The NYT is overwhelmingly read by Dems. That's who pays the subscriptions. People at the paper know this & hire accordingly
The NYT is overwhelmingly read by Dems. That's who pays the subscriptions. People at the paper know this & hire accordingly
Anyone who reads the NYT even casually can instantly see that it's a liberal paper -- not *left* in these sense of Noam Chomsky or Cornel West but liberal as in Nancy Pelosi and coastal cultural liberalism: far more than ever before, because of the economic model.
Why deny this?
Why deny this?
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