Isn't a Biased, Left-Wing Media Evidence of Markets at Work?

Writing about the individuals who hold the “commanding heights of news” at the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, the excellent Gerard Baker described them as having a “philosophical outlook” that “reflects a degree of convergence in their shared metropolitan, expensively educated, narrowly focused minds.” That’s perhaps true, but isn’t it also the point?

Baker thinks not. He entertainingly references longtime New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael’s (1919-2001) lament about Richard Nixon’s landslide, 1972 re-election that “I know only one person who voted for Nixon.”