Why Yascha Mounk worries America is losing its paper of record

Yascha Mounk:

"We all agree that The New York Times is one of the most important institutions in the United States. We all want The New York Times to succeed. We also all agree that The New York Times is not, as Donald Trump would put it, the failing New York Times The idea that the paper is in financial trouble, or that it's about to go bankrupt and it's about to fail in that kind of way is clearly wrong. My interest in this is that we need a newspaper of record, which is what The New York Times has historically called itself. We need an institution in the United States that people from different parts of the political spectrum can look to and recognize, even if I disagree with it often, that it represents the truth, that it represents reality in a way that they can trust.

And the thing I'm worried about is that the three main changes that The New York Times implemented over the last years detract from its standing as the newspaper of record. The first is a very clear narrowing of opinion in the op ed pages, and you don't have to take my impression as a reader on that. You can take what op ed columnists within The New York Times are saying when you talk to them privately. Multiple key figures within that world have told me over the last years that even quite uncontroversial criticisms of progressive orthodoxy are canned by their editors, that there are certain things that you simply cannot say in The New York Times, even if 90 percent of the population in America might agree with them."

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