THIS BRISBANE GUY IS WORSE THAN PAULINE KAEL

Kael infamously said that “I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.”

Arthur S. Brisbane has a similar problem from the other end of the political spectrum:

When The Times covers a national presidential campaign, I have found that the lead editors and reporters are disciplined about enforcing fairness and balance, and usually succeed in doing so. Across the paper’s many departments, though, so many share a kind of political and cultural progressivism — for lack of a better term — that this worldview virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times.

As a result, developments like the Occupy movement and gay marriage seem almost to erupt in The Times, overloved and undermanaged, more like causes than news subjects.
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A just-released Pew Research Center survey found that The Times’s “believability rating” had dropped drastically among Republicans compared with Democrats, and was an almost-perfect mirror opposite of Fox News’s rating. Can that be good?

First of all, it is to be expected that Republicans think more of FAUX than they do of the NYT. It seems like Brisbane hasn't watched FAUX News or if he has, he's missed all the agit-prop.

Second, Brisbane's remarks about gay marriage & Occupy Wall Street seem to originate from his personal lack of sympathy with these movements instead of a balanced assessment of the news value of these topics.