Ed Morrissey: A Malevolent Mainstream Media Cult

Thursday, February 29, 2024

When a staff revolt broke out at the New York Times over the decision to run an opinion essay by Senator Tom Cotton in 2020, the paper pinned the blame editor Adam Rubenstein. This week, Rubenstein struck back in a lengthy essay at The Atlantic. In it, he made clear what had long been obvious to conservatives: the Times is more like a cult than a news organization and they treat non-progressives as heretics.  

From the ideological struggle session at his orientation to his eventual departure, Rubenstein relates how the Times rejects fact-based reporting for political narratives. The enforcement of ideological cult-think permeates the organization, even its Human Resources functions. The Cotton episode is the most prominent he explores, but we have myriad other examples—and not just at the NYT. 

This confirms mainstream media’s radical-progressive cult, but their product continuously reveals it. They don’t exist to report the news. They exist to report progressive narratives.

We’re indebted to Adam Rubenstein for making that abundantly clear.

We’re facing a malevolent mainstream media cult.

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