Thus, in author William Proctor's view, the stealthy secularizing tendencies of New York Times journalism advances national culture towards dangerous secular, liberal goals, through story choice, framing and loaded language. Even reporters are significantly more religious than they used to be. Dorothy L. Sayers once had one of her characters remark that journalists as a rule were 30 years behind everyone else, which would place the front line of the fourth estate at the turn of the 70s. And that would support Proctor's point, I guess, depending on where the rest of us are now. But frankly, as we tend to need the media to tell us just that sort of thing, it all looks quite hopeless.
Ignorance is power.
Such is the creep of colloquialism and such is neologism a risky word scheme. And yes, that Bouguereau at the Guggenheim was very, very creepy indeed.