Honestly, knowing what I know of media in the older days, media presenting itself as non-partisan is a massive aberration- a function of the early TV era documented extensively in "Manufacturing Consent". Before, newspapers in the US basically ran the ideological gamut from socialist to conservative with others for more direct audiences…
Honestly, knowing what I know of media in the older days, media presenting itself as non-partisan is a massive aberration- a function of the early TV era documented extensively in "Manufacturing Consent". Before, newspapers in the US basically ran the ideological gamut from socialist to conservative with others for more direct audiences. They didn't ask for diversity of opinion within each paper, more there were enough papers for everyone. Afterward, yeah, you end up in today. Of course, the problem is for ideological content, NYT, etc. are completely outflanked- thusly they end up having to play this pantomime where they want to be a liberal paper but they don't want to be branded that way so they throw in a token conservative on the editorial board and call it done.
Though, to be honest, the conservative bleating about 'diversity of ideas' is kinda hilarious to me because no one's making Conor Friedersdorf or Ross Douthat work there- they could easily just wander on over to Breitbart and get no complaints but they want the prestige that Breitbart can't offer.
Honestly, knowing what I know of media in the older days, media presenting itself as non-partisan is a massive aberration- a function of the early TV era documented extensively in "Manufacturing Consent". Before, newspapers in the US basically ran the ideological gamut from socialist to conservative with others for more direct audiences. They didn't ask for diversity of opinion within each paper, more there were enough papers for everyone. Afterward, yeah, you end up in today. Of course, the problem is for ideological content, NYT, etc. are completely outflanked- thusly they end up having to play this pantomime where they want to be a liberal paper but they don't want to be branded that way so they throw in a token conservative on the editorial board and call it done.
Though, to be honest, the conservative bleating about 'diversity of ideas' is kinda hilarious to me because no one's making Conor Friedersdorf or Ross Douthat work there- they could easily just wander on over to Breitbart and get no complaints but they want the prestige that Breitbart can't offer.