"The New York Times sits at the apex of American media. Its decisions on what to cover often define what TV networks and less prominent newspapers think is news. And many times its reporting is groundbreaking and trenchant, which is why the Times has won so many Pulitzer Prizes.
Nevertheless, there is often an insular, condescending quality to the Times’ coverage of areas outside the Northeastern seaboard and outside the usual range of values, interests and beliefs of its newspaper’s executives and editors. Says who? For one, its first ombudsman. In 2004, veteran journalist Daniel Okrent wrote that the newspaper treats a wide range of American groups “as strange objects to be examined on a laboratory slide.” A perfect example: the Times’ front-page story about the fiery death of auto racing legend Dale Earnhardt Sr. at the 2001 Daytona 500. Its detached, faintly amused tone led writer Christopher Caldwell to suggest the story should have been headlined “Inexplicably Treasured Cracker with Mustache Immolated in Bizarre Folk Ritual.”
But where this tunnel vision is most disturbing is on the U.S. budget and economy. At a time when most of the rest of the world is wary of deficits and confiscatory tax rates, the Times’ opinion writers are often strident outliers.
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