[wernst]

I dont think this exactly applies to the NYT and the New Yorker which are subscriptions based.

I do think subscription based journalism can be just as pernicious. The most profitable route now is to find a niche group and produce content that they want. In general people "want" the objective truth, but its so much more tantalizing when it's spun to confirm your biases. There's likely a point where people will pay to get 90% of the truth and 10% confirmation bias, and if that's the most profitable route pubishers are going to report in that way (hence the left lean of NYT in particular, and right lean of other publications).

[bzbarsky]

Or 30% truth and 70% confirmation bias, as the case may be....