If you want to read a more objective newspaper, subscribe to the Washington Times which has a conservative viewpoint, although it presents other arguments. In fact, an old time newsman on their staff recently wrote an article describing the very phenomenon you describe and how it differs from what he and I learned as journalists. As for The New Yorker, someone on this or another blog recently described it as a “mind-numbing rag” good only for lying around dentists’ offices. As far back as the ’50s I could not understand how anyone could wade through those endless essays. Around 1970 some of my liberal colleagues excitedly referred to an idiotic article in it by some guy describing the New Age we had entered and how his bell-bottoms gave him a new sense of freedom! Some of the cartoons are even boring, although I always liked Charles Addams.
