Last winter, the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who has a Nobel prize in economics, told Greg Sargent on the latter’s Daily Blast podcast that when he writes positive pieces about the Biden economy, his editor asks “don’t you want to qualify” it; “aren’t people upset by X, Y and Z and shouldn’t you be acknowledging that?”
The mainstream press is failing America – and people are understandably upset | Rebecca Solnit
The media is still pursuing the appearance of fairness by treating true and false, normal and outrageous, as equally valid
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