John Hempton on NYT v. WSJ

I think they would argue that the Tea Party crowd are dumb, white, rural, uneducated and that that is backed by fact..

Editorializing as news sells papers - especially when it matches the reader prejudice.

I am sure I can find a fair dumb, white, rural and uneducated contingent in the tea party crowd. I can also find - in the SAME CROWD a smart, savvy, worldly, scared of government because their last interaction was with the IRS, but otherwise self reliant small business crowd. And they will be the same crowd (though sometimes different members of the crowd).

Depending on who you are selling to you editorialize differently.

Krugman - who is usually data or model driven - fell into the same crap with that blog post. And he did it entirely non-self-reflectively...