I am surprised that the New Yorker decided to publish this. While I admire SSC and Scott Alexander, I did not read SSC regularly or subscribe to even a signific

I am surprised that the New Yorker decided to publish this. While I admire SSC and Scott Alexander, I did not read SSC regularly or subscribe to even a significant majority of his views, this article is circling the wagons around the Times and the media establishment. The writer conveniently buries that he used to work at the NYT Magazine somewhere down in the article: "Until recently, I was a writer for the Times Magazine, and the idea that anyone on the organization’s masthead would direct a reporter to take down a niche blogger because he didn’t like paywalls, or he promoted a petition about a professor, or, really, for any other reason, is ludicrous; stories emerge from casual interactions between curious reporters and their overtaxed editors. Perhaps Metz was casting about for something on Silicon Valley’s good sense on the coronavirus, found Alexander’s post, and thought he’d look into it."