Friday’s season finale of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher condemned two media bubbles. First, the New York Times’s progressive bubble after former editor James Bennet penned a lengthy essay in The Economist recounting the 2020 Tom Cotton op-ed and second, the media’s bubble that seeks to blame Israel for the lack of Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Novelist, podcaster, and editor-at-large of Country Highway, Walter Kirn declared that the problem is, “People who think all reporting is done by Twitter and on Twitter and go straight from the bubble of the Ivy League to the bubble of the New York Times aren’t really covering America, they’re covering their friend set.”
Maher, quoting from Bennet, followed up by wondering, “He says ‘the Times is becoming the publication through which America’s progressive elite talks to itself…
