The New York Times cultivated a liberal audience and now spends its time laundering its own shitty institutional prerogatives through an idea of “telling them hard truths they need to hear.”
Conservative media wins when it makes its audience angry and sad. Conservative media execs then go to work for liberal media, and they bring the brilliant insight of making your audience angry and sad
There’s nothing hard about the “truths” they’re telling us, not for them. They want things to be a certain way and they’re putting their muscle into trying to make it that way. This is being done joyfully, not tearfully.