The New York Times has long leaned left. But is it really a stable Pisa-tower lean, at this point? It sure seems that, in recent years, the Gray Lady has gone extreme, abandoning its “respectable” center-left perch.
The change, economist Alex Tabarrok writes for FEE, appears to have happened “around 2010 – 2014,” when we can see “an inflection point” where phrases and buzzwords like “social justice” and “diversity and inclusion” increased in number in Times editorials and news stories.
Forget, for a moment, the why — is it demand side, with the paper trying to court Millennial readers; or supply side, a result of new hires out of journalism programs and other indoctrination factories; or a mixture of both? — and concern ourselves with how far will the Gray Lady go?
Communism, apparently.
Or, at least, “Automated Luxury Communism,” as identified in what may be the stupidest article to appear in any newspaper in years.
“The plummeting cost of information and advances in technology are providing the ground for a collective future of freedom and luxury for all,” the author asserts, upon the evidence of innovations he has identified as arising … in our capitalist mixed economy, chiefly in the market sector: lab-grown burgers and “molecular whiskey.”
It all smacks of a loafer’s Marxism, with robots and AI as the proles. I could explain this better had the author bothered to do any real work on his vision, but, unfortunately (?), he offers nothing but a “wouldn’t it be neat if” blog post.
That the Times’ placed on its front page.
I guess since Democratic pols are now calling themselves socialists, their lead thought organ must seize the advance guard position by going full commie.
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It is the dreams of utopia which fuel the collectivist engines, all of which sputter and die long before utopia is reached in the quagmires which surround it.
I have long said the old Gray Lady is senile.