As Benedict Evans pointed out, it was supposed to be ad-based business models that drove polarization, but apparently subscription-based models do too. Alarming possibility: What if it's simply being online that drives polarization?
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That’s partly true. It’s also due to journalist that work at NYT & virtually all high caliber news outlets regardless of the outlets leanings. Journalist are more likely to lean liberal, be highly educated, come from top 20% of income bracket, attend elite college, etc
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Not that I’m against any of this. But ones bias can impact their work.
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It’s also a generational shift - AG Sulzberger is a millennial taking over from more conservative prior editors. I expect every newspaper to reflect the biases of editors-there is no neutral news, just different stories from a subset of facts. The FT and WSJ are good counters.
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I suspect the audience for non-partisan content is quite modest.
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The other side is just as likely to wreck the country - i.e. Fox News. Not defending the Times bias, but just making sure we aren't being biased in our judgements either
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