you don't need to be terminally ill to report on people that are terminally ill That's because reporters don't generally despise the terminally ill. But if yo

you don't need to be terminally ill to report on people that are terminally ill That's because reporters don't generally despise the terminally ill. But if you want to honestly report about politics, then you can't think of people as deplorables. You can't automatically ascribe all sorts of negatives to 46% of the country because they didn't vote for "your" candidate. If you despise what you're reporting on you will never, can never, report honestly. Your biases will overwhelm your coverage. You will not be able to understand what you're writing about. And in the case of the Times, they don't even make an attempt at impartiality. They don't need to. Their target audience exists in the same bubble.