My recent suggestion that observers with more time than I believe the mainstream has gone into the left corner evoked a reaction from a reader and old friend:
This, however is bullshit: “While there’s been concern that The New York Times and WaPo have been captured by extreme-left journalists”. Not Even Close. Both are total normalizers of GOP insanity and total apologists for capitalist class warfare on the masses.
Being a subscriber to WaPo, I can state that right-wing madness is reported and marked as such by the journalism side of the house. I do not subscribe to The New York Times, but, as I understand it, for a while they were far gone left, which would imply a close examination of the right.
Whether or not either is thorough is another question, one that I haven’t the time or inclination to answer.
The opinion side of the houses differs. I’d imagine Marc Thiessen, a WaPo columnist and Trump partisan who once wrote a column proclaiming Trump as the most honest politician ever, is still soft on Trump – but I haven’t read any of his stuff since at least 2020.
But if opinion is important, WaPo’s Dana Milbank bangs GOP heads together at every opportunity.
The assertion that Both are total normalizers of GOP insanity and total apologists for capitalist class warfare on the masses strikes me as characteristic of someone with a strong ideological orientation, and I’ve noticed that such folks tend to view the media in a very binary manner – they’re with us or against us.
There’s little room given to the possibilities of being wrong, even that the media is trying hard but has the unfortunate attribute of being, well, human.
