1. What the hell is happening at the New York Times? I think the larger crisis, going well beyond the argument over the Cotton op ed, is the crack-up of the elite consensus that dominated from 1939 until 1991 (and had a strong afterlife until around 2014).
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I would be ok with the both sideisms if we could move the dialog to between far left (Cornell West) and neoliberal(Obama) sides. That is the real problem, that there is no debate, nothing to talk about to the right of neoliberalism, and everyone thinks there is something to say.
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The only thing to the right is racism and nationalism. Nothing new on that topic for 75 years.
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Mad Magazine was skewering the Times's "voice from nowhere" prose way back in the '50s: for example, "a hitherto reliable but as yet unconfirmed source"
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The Times fears the right and despises the libs. Bennet may awaken some over there. It was always strange how they ignored their subscribers to suck up to the Republicans.
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The both-sides as Balance thing is something conservatives figured out and now use to their advantage to game coverage and public discourse. Unfortunately traditional journalism hasn’t really caught up and adjusted their standards (for lack of a better word).
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The most nefarious thing about the scrambling of american media to present both sides is *not* that Cotton is presented as a legitimate view, it's the de facto assumption of what Cotton is counter to: upper middle class liberalism?
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It's dismissing wholesale the idea that underprivileged, underserved, underrepresented in this country even deserve a voice. The NYT casts representing all views as "how far right do we expand" rather than looking for less wildly comfortable and successful writers
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Good thread & article. The both sides reporting in media is quite dangerous, both to reporters of color and to the entire nation in multiple ways. How Mainstream Media Destroy Truth and Democracy through Both Sides Reportinghttps://medium.com/@upine/how-mainstream-media-destroy-truth-and-democracy-through-both-sides-reporting-ea44ffc476cc …
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Jeet, we're having the same thoughts: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21281309/new-york-times-op-ed-editor-tom-cotton-is-trump-authoritarian …
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Nice. One of the most basic failures was that Cotton’s piece was incoherent and not in any way fact-based. Both of which should have precluded its publication.
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