"The truth is that Americans have effectively been living in a company town, in which most systems, including journalism, came into existence to preferentially benefit a narrow spectrum of the public—an owner class—and to further moneyed interests."
I wrote about why the New York Times and many (many!) others struggle to address the threat of Trumpism. For this piece, I borrowed a term from @katharinehayhoe.com and the world of climate change to talk about the human tendency to believe in a world that no longer exists.
Why is it so hard for legacy media, corporations, and tens of millions of Americans to address the threat of Trumpism?
And that has become all the more obvious as the exceptionally wealthy heir to the Staples fortune — himself a former New York Times correspondent in authoritarian China — became executive editor and utterly failed to meet this moment due in part to his own economic self-interest.