The NYT also deliberately blurs the lines between any kind of non-leftist thinking (traditional conservative views, non-left liberal thinking, criticism of Islam or illegal immigration) and 'alt right' - a term created by Richard Spencer, a white nationalist who wants to create a white ethnostate which (at least according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right) describes far right hate groups.
I know people who work at the NYT. They're absolutely smart enough to know the difference.
I understand the ideological flame war rule, as I've been here since it's introduction, but we're discussing the Times being misleading, and I'm not attacking or promoting any particular ideology in this post.
That may be true and yet you can still be taking the thread further into flamewar. At the dog park, when dogs get into a fight, I notice that there are sometimes other dogs who get in the middle of it, barking and racing around. They're not fighting at all, but they sure make the thing more intense.
I'm a liberal, and happen to watch Ben Shapiro (an Othodox Jewish lawyer who records a conservative podcast) and follow Lauren Southern (the filmmaker who looks at people smuggling and illegal immigration, who directed the film 'Borderless') - both are mentioned in the 'online radicalisation' piece above.
Other fairly boring, obviously non-alt-right sources mentioned in the piece are Milton Friedman (who won a Nobel Prize for Economics) and Jordan Peterson.
Those are all very obviously non-alt-right, but included in what would seem to be a rather shady attempt to smear non-leftist sources.
I shouldn't take the bait, but in case you're being serious: part of being liberal means that I disagree with left-leaning violence and terrorism as much as I do right-leaning violence and terrorism.
Having a lawyer give commentary on particularly legal news (the Mueller Report, state vs federal law, the role of the legislative and executive branches, etc) is a refreshing change from journalists and politicians who don't have legal knowledge. I disagree with Shapiro on many things including abortion law, and do not believe in the supernatural, but it's also good having my beliefs be challenged. I recommend you try it yourself sometime. You might learn something.
That's funny, I see the NYT as a mid-conservative publisher that regularly equates modern leftist thought with communism in defense of their rich conservative owners. NYT regularly normalizes far-right fascists and runs over moderately liberal thinkers.
I also know people who work at the NYT who share this view. Maybe it's our priors having more influence on our thought than we think, but NYT owners are the among the most wealthy so I tend to believe basic psychological principles/people acting in their own interest is what is closest to truth.
NYT straddles a line between being institutionally conservative while having a majority liberal staff and subscriber base. It creates pattern matching hits for both sides. MSNBC has similar issues.
I know people who work at the NYT. They're absolutely smart enough to know the difference.