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Heidi’s defense of a neutral public culture is simply cosmopolitan tribalism. This tribalism might be dismissed as mildly amusing if not for the fact that Heidi insists that, as a shared neutral space, the public square must reflect her “neutral” views.
Moshe Koppel • Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures
The recent obsession with identity has allowed journalists to pretend—indeed to believe—they are still speaking truth to power, still fighting on behalf of the little guy, even after they have themselves ascended to the ranks of the powerful, even when they are speaking down to an audience who, in more cases than not, have less than them on every m... See more
Batya Ungar-Sargon • Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy
Today, there’s the exclusion of conservatives from academic life. Then there’s the exclusion of working-class voices from mainstream media. Our profession didn’t used to be all coastal yuppies, but now it mostly is. Then there’s the marginalization of those with radical critiques — from say, the Marxist left and the theological right.
David Brooks • Opinion | The Future of Nonconformity (Published 2020)
Opinion | Jeff Bezos: The Hard Truth: Americans Don’t Trust the News Media - The Washington Post
Jeff Bezoswashingtonpost.com
(My 93-year-old mother has kept her subscription to the Washington Post strictly because she loves the crossword puzzles. I have shown her websites teeming with crossword puzzles, but she remains unmoved. My mother wants her bundle, and belongs to the last generation to do so.) Information sought a less grandiose, less industrial level of circulati
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