“Charlie: Your point is unclear.”
I was being sarcastic. Rupert Murdoch is the biggest peddler of legal smut in the world, but conservatives love him. He runs Faux News and The Post.
The NY Times is indeed no paragon of virtue. Its journalistic standards in the last decade or so have been awful. It still has yet to apologize for Judith Miller’s shilling for the Bush administration, supporting the lies that lead to our disastrous involvement in Iraq, at a cost that has brought the US to the brink of default and has made it impossible to do anything about the real threat, Iran. And they sold their profitable classical music radio station, one of the few gems of broadcasting. The NY Times doesn’t peddle smut, but that is faint praise.