DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Ex-NY Times staffer: ‘It was like a Maoist struggle session.’ The Times and its publisher, Bennet said, ‘want to have it both ways.’ Sulzberger is ‘old school’ in his belief in a neutral, heterodox publication. But ‘they want to have the applause and the welcome of the left, and now there’s the problem on top of that that they’ve signed up so many new subscribers in the last few years and the expectation of those subscribers is that the Times will be Mother Jones on steroids.'”

Now that they cater to the beast, it will devour them if they stop.