If someone who was once considered “heir apparent to run the Times” declares that his former paper has become an intolerant “illiberal” hellhole, you should listen.
The latter part of former New York Times opinion editor James Bennet’s 17,000-word autopsy of his former employer sharpened the focus on the suffocating liberalism of the media world in general and the Times –and its closed-minded liberal readership — in particular. (Read our take on the first part here.)
Bennet conveyed more conservative arguments in a single paragraph than Times reporters have done over the last four years:
….The Times was slow to break it to its readers that there was less to Trump’s ties to Russia than they were hoping, and more to Hunter Biden’s laptop, that Trump might be right that covid came from a Chinese lab, that masks were not always effective…
