Erlanger refers with a straight face to Jeremy Corbyn’s “proto-Marxist program.”
Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting identifies this piece as “a case study in how to disguise an op-ed as reporting. . . .In the report, the Times quoted eight people: four professors, three voters, and a politician. Not a single person said anything positive about Corbyn. All eight were used to paint of a picture of the leftist Labour leader as unelectable and out of touch—a stereotype that simply does not reflect the polls.”
The Times does not need to be buying out/firing its editors. It needs more editors in place as a firewall against crap like this.
Equally shocking is Britain’s Guardian’s long-held bias against Corvyn–something that the paper is, however, now finally trying (somewhat) to reform.