Normalization Continues by tristero

Normalization Continues 

by tristero

Recently, I wrote about the outrageous stunt the NY Times pulled, turning over their entire editorial page to pro-Trump letter writers. But that's not all they're up to when it comes to normalizing the abnormal, as the Columbia Journalism Review reports:
[James Bennet, editorial page editor at the New York Times] says the Times is actively looking for Trump supporters to write regularly for its opinion section...

Great. Just what we need, more affirmative action for conservatives at the Paper of Record. There's just one teensy, tiny problem:
...but that there’s a short supply of writers who would live up to the rigorous standards the section demands. 
No kidding.