"A serious news organization cannot exclude views championed by one of the country's two major political parties and held by more than 40 percent of the country

"A serious news organization cannot exclude views championed by one of the country's two major political parties and held by more than 40 percent of the country's voters." I don't wear a "red tie" but this resonates with me, as someone who speaks daily with friends from both extremes of the spectrum. In truth, I most seek out people who think issue-by-issue, because as an adult, and not a 20 year-old revolutionary, I don't believe that reality is to be explained with glued-together social theory with axiomatic truths that the believers don't recognize are even there and can be qustioned; as an adult, I find it hard to fathom the downward spiral of the idea of truth into a weaponized all-or-nothing nihilistic battle. In the past few weeks, the Washington Post and the NY Times, both of which I have subscriptions and I read daily, declared war. They've made that pretty clear and they've also admitted it. Gone are the days where we want unbiased reporting. Sunday and Monday of the week prior, Manhattan had hundreds of stores looted and the streets became fully lawless as cars could drive up to broken storefronts, send organized groups in and retrieve thousands of dollars of goods. Those two days, the NYT, the home town paper, ran front page stories about Trump's (reprehensible, do I need to say it) actions. And around the front page they had commentary about the Trump actions. In short, focus on the Enemy. No focus on the rioting, and the story is even worse with Chicago, which has experienced the most murders in 60 years. Surely a story worth a visible lede. This reminds me of the Two Minutes Hate in 1984 when the Party watches films of Goldstein, mortal enemy of the party (a Trotsky-like fellow) speaking, and everyone must scream and shout and curse and stand out of their chairs in demonstrations of fury. "But, but, we're on the side of good" a.k.a. The End Justifies the Means has never lead to any great outcome. I'm legitimately nervous about the state of journalism in this country. But I'm about ten times more nervous when I read comments below that say, "Well, of course the press does this. Did you see what the Red Ties did this time?"