If you want a good example of what people mean when they say there is a media echo chamber, look no further than the New York Times’ daily political newsletter and its praise for Hillary Clinton’s headlong descent into bitter online trolling.
You would have to live in an alternate universe, or at least surround yourself with solely like-minded colleagues and peers, to believe Clinton is now “living her best life,” as the New York Times On Politics newsletter declared this week. Clinton’s post-2016 public career has mostly involved her crisscrossing the country blaming everyone except herself for her defeat. But the newsletter opens with these lines:
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