Here is the opening salvo in The New York Times of a lengthy piece on Rand Paul. And it is dead wrong: “As Rand Paul test-markets a presidential candidacy and tries to broaden his appeal, he is also trying to take libertarianism, an ideology long on the fringes of American politics, into the mainstream.”
The fact is that the libertarianism was the gist of the philosophical foundation of the American political system. Natural individual rights! Limited constitutional government! Free market! Due process of law!
All these were there at the start and libertarianism is simply restoring them to prominence. But of course The New York Times care nothing for historical accuracy. It wishes, evidently, to demean the ideas both the American founders and libertarianism champion. No wonder, since The Times loves big government, extensive interventionism, both domestic and international.
It is also quite evident that The Times has a very distorted view of its own readership, as if they had no other sources of historical information aside from that of the editors of The Times. What was central to the founders is, to The Times, fringe!
Shame on them!
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Dr. Machan holds the R. C. Hoiles Chair in Business Ethics & Free Enterprise at Chapman University's Argyros School of B&E.
“All the news that’s (un)fit to print”.. The New York Times, which used to be necessary reading for the well informed and a trusted source, has become nothing more than a propaganda rag of left-wing thought.. What was once a creditable source of diverse news coverage has now become a focused tool of big government indoctrination.. No wonder its circulation and subscription base and advertising linage is down along with the historical price of its equity.. Even its Internet presence has become a waste of precious time.. Diverse new coverage on the Internet has replaced the biased reporting of slanted information by the print media.. Like the Washington Post, the derelict New York Times has seen its better days and now is about to be discarded to the trash heap..
I don’t think the NYT has right in the last 30 years about anything,well maybe the obituary column !