In my last post, I used a New York Times story to show how government interference in the economy distorts the marketplace so much that the automakers are begging the Trump administration to retain the Electric Vehicle mandates.
Consumers don’t like what the automakers are selling, so they want the government to force their customers to shut up and buy the cars anyway.
Big automakers want to ask Trump to keep Biden EV mandates in place. Consumers don’t want the cars, but the companies have already sunk so much money in EVs to comply with federal regulations. Now, they don’t want to compete with gas cars. From NYT: https://t.co/HQn4yho11a
— Byron York (@ByronYork) November 23, 2024
That aspect of the story was worth writing about, so I did. Now I want to talk about another aspect of the story: how The New York Times uses its news stories to propagandize…