re: #20 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
One explanation for why business like the NYT work so hard to both-sides and cater to the right wing sensibilities - look at the TV ratings.
Here is the Thursday cable finals:
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The top 10 are owned by Murdoch. The viewership totals also blow away broadcast networks (on Thursday, not true usually for earlier in the week.)
America is in large part a right-wing nation, with pockets of elite liberalism (big coastal cities) and other pockets of old-fashioned (religious) black anti-white-nationalist polity.
Well okay. I get it. But cable viewership is such a small fraction of the population. Low single digit millions. It’s the loud minority