Romenesko

Salon
Hiring Bill Kristol didn't bring an "opposing view" to the New York Times' op-ed page because it already has David Brooks, notes Stephen M. Walt. What's missing in the Times and the rest of mainstream media is the voice of realism, he says. "Realists think foreign policy should be based on the world as it really is, rather than what we might like it to be. ...In America today, the mainstream media is a realism-free zone."