A Stunning Admission From The New York Times' Public Editor.

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Margaret Sullivan is the Grey Lady's current PE.

Here is what she had to say on her NYT 'blog' in response to readers' raising the issue of the Times' 'coverage' of longtime progressive and current US Senator Bernie Sanders' run to become the Democratic party's presidential nominee in 2016:

..."Here’s my take: The Times has not ignored Mr. Sanders’s campaign by any means, but it also hasn’t always taken it very seriously. The tone of some stories does seem regrettably dismissive, even mocking at times. Some of it is focused on the candidate’s age, appearance and style rather than what he has to say..."

Stunning admission or what?

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Meanwhile, as you might expect, the Times' low priest of high-Broderism, David Brooks, pretty much simultaneously sees Mr. Sanders and the Donald as being two sides of the same (completely fictional) coin on the NYT's OpEd page.

Former News Blog denizen, Driftglass, does the fisking:

...David Brooks really hates hippies.

And no one represents the spirit of what David Brooks hates most in this world -- a spirit now gone gray but still radical, thoughtful but still clarion-clear, politically pragmatic but still mission-driven -- than Bernie Sanders.

Ergo Mr. Brooks must destroy Bernie Sanders.

QED.

And being David Brooks, he has one and only one, tried-and-true method of destroying that which is terrifyingly true and beautiful and unabashedly Liberal: by cooking up some lie flexible enough to yoke something decent and Liberal to whatever misshapen monstrosity has slouched out of the Conservative ghoul factory this week and then heaving them both from the fantail of the good ship Centrism into the great, dark sea of Political Unseriousness, where they slip beneath the waves and never trouble the beautiful minds of the Villagers, who are all up on the lido deck getting drunk with Chuck Todd and Mark Halperin.

Which is, or course, exactly what Mr. Brooks did, following the accepted recipe of the Villager Both Siderist Playbook...


Don't know about you, but when I read stuff like that I can feel the fire of the greatest of Left Blogistan's greatest of all time Steve Gilliard.

(and smell the Beer Can Chicken)


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Tip 'O The Toque to Jay Rosen for calling attention to the money quote from Ms. Sullivan on the Twittmachine.


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