
Vox Kills Piece Implying a Philosophical Reason to Oppose Abortion
Politics makes us stupid. That was Ezra Klein’s thumbnail version of a dilemma social science says exists at the core of all political journalism.

Politics makes us stupid. That was Ezra Klein’s thumbnail version of a dilemma social science says exists at the core of all political journalism.

NBC announced last week that it will straighten-up MSNBC’s left-wing slant and make a $200 million investment in in Vox Media.

This week, Ezra Klein’s “explainer” news site Vox scored an interview with President Obama. Given that Vox is not yet a year old, one might expect some backbiting from the more established media outlets that did not score the big interview.

Jack Schafer writes in Politico Magazine that Vox’s interview of Barack Obama is an embarrassment, full of softball questions and graphics helping the President explain his positions.

President Obama is known for his frequent appearances on 60 Minutes. But he’s encouraging future presidents to “try to bypass the traditional venues that create divisions and try to find new venues within this new media that are quirkier, less predictable.”

President Obama visited Vox.com’s Ezra Klein to talk about the state of the nation, and the result is a video replete with cloying graphics, cutesy mood music, and talk of wealth redistribution.

By deflecting attention from the cartoons, Klein is actually trying to protect Western ideas about the state, the individual, and freedom. Yet he cannot bring himself to identify the threat to those ideas, because doing so would mean admitting that the multicultural project, to which the left is politically wedded, has failed.

Deadspin summarizes the situation bluntly: “Vox repeatedly crapped the bed in 2014.” This is followed by a list with 46 examples of corrections to Vox stories. As you’ll see below, Deadspin left out a few.