Pinch's overarching, original crime: Freeing a respected 
    national newspaper to become an unashamed cocooning organ 
    of New York liberal political and aesthetic prejudices 
    (with a few exceptions, like Miller, that are slowly 
    being corrected).

    the Times' reporting influences not just what you read in 
    other papers, but what you see on TV as well. Many, many 
    TV news stories begin as Times articles, which TV 
    networks simply hand to their reporters and say, "craft a 
    TV story out of this".