Paul Waldman on how, when the New York Time is challenged to acknowledge the power it wields in framing thought and setting agendas, it pretends to be powerless and "objective." It wants to claim, as editor Joe Kahn did in a recent interview, that it's just reflecting what people want. But:
"It doesn't just give the people what they want. It tells them what to want."
"When the Times decides that Hillary Clinton’s emails are the most important issue in the 2016 campaign, or that the fact that a prosecutor thinks Joe Biden is old warrants multiple front-page stories, it’s a signal that this is something you have to pay attention to. And people do.
It’s particularly maddening that Kahn doesn’t acknowledge that fact…."
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