Media Views

Tom Wicker is a famous example, one of the "left commentators" of the New York Times. He would get very angry when critics would tell him he’s conforming to power interests and that he’s keeping within the doctrinal framework of the media, which goes back to their corporate structure and so on. And he would answer, very angrily—and correctly—that nobody tells him what to say. He wrote anything he wanted—which is absolutely true. But if he wasn’t writing the things he did, he wouldn’t have a column in the New York Times.