Bullying, intimidation replace reasoned debate in the “fake news” media

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Why would anyone read the New York Times (NYT) ever again?  It no longer maintains even the pretense of being a newspaper.  Instead, it has joined the mob.

The paper recently published an Op Ed by U.S. Senator Tom Cotton arguing for Trump's use of troops to quell mass rioting across the country.  This is a response supported by the majority of registered voters and something previous presidents have done under the Insurrection Act. 

But instead of responding to this Op Ed with argument and debate, the NYT employees responded like tantrum-throwing children in what has been described as an "open revolt."  The staff flew into a moral outrage, as they are highly offended by any ideas that deviate even slightly from their leftist thinking.  Such ideas make them feel "unsafe."  The end result was that the NYT Opinion Editor promptly resigned under intense pressure from the mob.

Now, maybe Tom Cotton was wrong; maybe there is good reason not to send in the National Guard, federal troops, or whatever, to quell riots.  But NYT readers will never get to read about that debate.  Their newspaper of choice demands group think, political correctness, and capitulation to the mob over free speech, open debate, and diversity of opinion.  What kind of newspaper is that? 

Any fair-minded reader who skims even the titles of the articles in the NYT or the Washington Post will immediately realize that something is afoot: the headlines are incredibly inflammatory, sometimes childish, and blatantly anti-Trump.  Any fair-minded reader who ventures further by actually reading the articles and doing some research about the subject matter will have their initial suspicions confirmed.  (See, e.g., here.)

But now, if there was any doubt about any this, such doubt has been eliminated.  The NYT employees—or at least a large group of them who appear to have a great deal of power—have made it clear what their goals are and where they stand.  This is true not only with regard to their far left stance on political issues, which has been obvious for a long time, but also their disdain for opposing views, argument, and debate. 

Trump was correct when he said: “The radical left tolerates no dissent, it permits no opposition, it accepts no compromise. These people are crazy.”  And as a liberal professor on a hyper-liberal campus recently explained, the state of affairs is unsurprisingly the same (or worse) on college campuses, which are the training grounds for these intolerant, divisive children running most media outlets. 

Why does the Left keep proving Trump right?