They will of course insist that the readers are ignoramuses who are too stupid to buy and read their opinions, to their everlasting detriment.
They are the most pigheaded and arrogant persons I can imagine.
Starve rather than admit that nobody wants to buy their liberal hogwash.
Except for, perhaps, those denizens of the news room and the board room at the New York Times.
Which is fitting, actually...