And it's weird, like I am a big fan of The Economist which I see as a center right magazine that was founded by partisans who believed in free trade back in 1843 who were advocating against the Corn Law. It is even trans-skeptical but somehow gets pigeonholed as a center left magazine on most lists because people further to the right have built a whole alternative media universe over my lifetime.

I think the most depressing thing about The New York Times is that the editorial page, which is basically people like Charlie Blow blowing it out their ass, gets the lion share of the clicks. People would rather hear their own version of "the king is still on the throne, the pound is still worth a pound" rather than hear about something some people they've never heard about did in some place that they've never heard about that's about a long term trend that they're not aware of and probably wouldn't believe if someone told them -- but will reshape the world in the next 30 years.

The great thing about The New York Times is that they send out young underpaid reporters to work on those kind of things -- but the readers could care less. If I had to point to one difficult problem it is the pernicious backpressure from the readers!

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