it’s not the choices per se made by organs like NY Times that delegitimates them, as much as the sense they are triangulating — btw thr audience’s prejudices, risks of blowback from disingenuous operatives, desire to retain access, privilege, bodily freedom regardless of the next administration. 1/

that’s all understandable, but quite a different basis for decision-making than disinterested evaluations of truth, importance, and the public interest. /fin