Legacy Media Bias (and the NYT)
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:28 am
We all know the legacy media has a major bias against the Second Amendment. Here's what an insider has just revealed about legacy media bias:
Bari Weiss on why she left the New York Times
Bari Weiss on why she left the New York Times
There's many more nuggets in the article, and while Weiss doesn't mention the Second Amendment specifically, she gives a good description of the environment which spawns propaganda in general and anti-gun propaganda in particular.The paper’s failure to anticipate the outcome of the 2016 election meant that it didn’t have a firm grasp of the country it covers...But the lessons that ought to have followed the election — lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society — have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else