Over the last seven days, The New York Times published a sequence of pieces whose only common thread was the normalization of ideas that, a decade ago, would not have been welcomed into the mainstream. The week ended with another man trying to kill the president. It’s all connected.
The Times is worth examining in particular because it is known as the "paper of record", but it is written largely by progressives with a discernible worldview. Its readers, by and large, believe they are simply reading the news — an unmediated account of what is happening in the world.
So when the ideological winds shift inside the Times' newsroom, those winds become reality for a significant slice of the country. That new reality is then reflected back in the paper, and the cycle begins again, changing the country with it.
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