Hear No Evil
“Even though he lives in Washington and works in government, he dumped
his subscription to The Washington Post. He explained: ‘It was the
treatment of almost any conservative issue. It was slanted and often
nasty. And, you know, why should I get upset every morning?’ He added
that The Post was ‘shrilly, shrilly liberal.’
“Just another guy in Washington who can’t stand hearing anything that
doesn’t comport with his worldview? Well, this one happens to work on
the United States Supreme Court.
“As Justice Antonin Scalia might say, ‘Boom!’ His interview with Jennifer Senior
in New York magazine suggests that the tendency to limit one’s sources
of information to avoid dissonance is not the province of a bunch of
narrow-minded, politically obsessed characters who send mass e-mails
from their mother’s basement.”
—David Carr, media writer, “It’s Not Just Politics. Our News Is Gerrymandered, Too,” The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2013
• Editorial Comment: As a press critic, Nino’s an originalist.
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