Is the New York Times bestseller list politically biased?

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Is the New York Times bestseller list politically biased?

Jun 11 2024

The New York Times is pure propaganda,” tweeted Elon Musk, a tech mogul, in March. Mr.Musk was responding not to the newspaper’s coverage of his companies or of Donald Trump, but rather to the newspaper’s latest bestseller list. “Troubled”, a book by Rob Henderson, a social critic, about the hypocrisy of America’s elite, had been excluded from the hardcover non-fiction list despite selling 3,765 copies in its first week. According to data from Circana Bookscan, a firm that claims to track 85% of print book sales in America, “Troubled” outperformed the books that ranked in the fourth and fifth slots that week. Many saw the omission as a sign of political bias.

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