For example:
As you can suss from this excerpt, the premise of the Egan column is that Starbucks (which dispenses expensive coffee to the type of people who work art the New York Times) is a good company, while Walmart (which offers low prices and improves the standard of living of the lower half of the income distribution) is baaaad. The obvious class bias here is something Mr. Tovar is far too polite to mention, but it is what sticks in my craw even more than the sloppiness with facts that makes the Egan column disgraceful.
The left in the United States, of which the Times is the leading media spokesman, needs villains in order to sell its political program, which, on its own, is unappealing. Witness the Obama re-election campaign, which relied on demonizing Mitt Romney as having magically caused a worker at a company his firm invested in to get cancer. Saul Alinsky, who dedicated his seminal work to Lucifer, taught them to isolate their targets, and they have learned well.
