A column in last Wednesday’s New York Times has touched a nerve. Among those who responded are a writer in Australia and one in Boston, the authors of the first two articles linked below. A link to the Times column follows. (Scroll further down or click HERE for today’s first entry.) — MCM

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Mainstream journalists, by Caitlin Johnstone | caitlinjohnstone.com.au  Iraq war cheerleader David Brooks’ article in The New York Times, “What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?” is another one of those tired old think pieces we’ve been seeing for the last eight years that asks, “Golly gosh could we coastal elites have played some role in the rise of Trumpism?” One worthwhile paragraph about the media stands out though: “Over the last decades we’ve taken over whole professions and locked everybody else out. When I began . . . READ MORE . . .

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‘Elites’ started killing newspapers decades ago, by Howie Carr | Boston Herald  Newspapers ain’t what they used to be, but it wasn’t only the Internet, wokeness and coronavirus that ruined them beyond repair. The Beautiful People started destroying newspapers long before any of the above catastrophes. And finally, David Brooks, a typical product of the . . . READ MORE . . .

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What if we’re the bad guys here? by David Brooks | The New York Times  I ask you to try on a vantage point in which we anti-Trumpers are not the eternal good guys. In fact, we’re the bad guys. This story begins in the 1960s, when high school grads had to go off to fight in Vietnam, but the children of the educated class got college deferments. It continues in the 1970s, when the authorities imposed busing on working-class areas in Boston, but not on the upscale communities like Wellesley where they themselves lived. The ideal that . . . READ MORE . . .