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> Their job is to keep an eye on more institutional power Buddy, the NYT is institutional power. The government listens to them, not the other way around. (Occ
by erichocean 6y ago
> Their job is to keep an eye on more institutional power
Buddy, the NYT is institutional power. The government listens to them, not the other way around. (Occasionally, NYT does USG a solid, like convincing the public to invade Iraq.)
Oh, and the NYT listens to Harvard, Yale, and other high-status academic sources (and especially, NGOs). You might even call them their mouthpiece.
It's been this way since at least WW2 when FDR disempowered the executive branch in favor of the permanent administrative state. We've been living in that reality ever since…
- jariel 6y agoYes of course, I was referring to the press in general. Rupert Murdoch & Co. have a kind of similar influence as well. They are not held to the same standards of accountability and I don't think people realize how bad it is, that most of our news is narrative. As the population starts to become aware - the other problem is that truth is hard to come by, it takes work, and also rational readership - the population is really, really easily led astray by basically anything. Combined with Twitter, Social media, it's a hugely serious problem. So we have the Truth being twisted by institutional sources, 1000's of other outlets with no commitment to the truth, and then millions of individual voices spouting raw inanity. I wish I knew the answer.