A promo line for media critic Steve Krakauer’s Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy With Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People says, “The fourth estate is supposed to be a conduit to the people and a check on power. Instead, we have a bunch of geographically isolated, introspection-free, cozy-with-power, egomaniacal journalists thirsty for elite approval.”
We’ve known that for some time. But Krakauer, a report on the newly published book says, proves it in spades by disclosing the mass hysteria inside The New York Times after it published Senator Tom Cotton’s op-ed Send In the Troops. Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, argued that the Floyd Hoax Riots of 2020 should have been answered with National Guard troops.