…I still believe that, but also see that the hive on Eighth Avenue is powerfully shaped by a culture of like minds — a phenomenon, I believe, that is more easily recognized from without than from within.
When The Times covers a national presidential campaign, I have found that the lead editors and reporters are disciplined about enforcing fairness and balance, and usually succeed in doing so. Across the paper’s many departments, though, so many share a kind of political and cultural progressivism — for lack of a better term — that this worldview virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times.
As a result, developments like the Occupy movement and gay marriage seem almost to erupt in The Times, overloved and undermanaged, more like causes than news subjects.
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Not quite. Overall, the paper reflects the population in the Northeast, not some progresive “cabal”.
If you want to see into the true “hive mind” of progressivism, check out MSNBC and watch Chris Hayes on the weekends, and Rachael Maddow for a week or two. That’s where progressivism is headed, not the caricature portrayed by Murdoch’s minions. Compare a week of Jennifer Rubin in the WaPo to a week of Maddow.