Something I think about a lot lately is how much Nazi support there actually was in the US and if things had gone slightly differently we would not have been calling ourselves the good guys of WWII
This is beyond the normalization of publications like the Times at the time. But the Times specifically was wrong on Hitler, wrong on MLK Jr, wrong on Ida B Wells, wrong on the famine in ukraine, wrong on weapons of mass destruction. Being wrong somehow isn't disqualifying.
Their target audience is older affluent white men. Always has been. They remain a major paper by pandering them
Older white folks I have known almost all said they agreed with MLK and most are lying. But the "paper of record" can't so easily erase its record of parroting them
