Gonzalo Lira on Paul Krugman And The Media's Establishment Gatekeepers

[This episode] made me realize--because of Wiesenthal's passive-aggressive reaction that directly led to my exiting Business Insider--how insidious the whole Krugman Defense Industry really is: They are the self-appointed gatekeepers, the sentries you have to pass, in order to reach the mainstream, and thus have influence on the general conversation.

Because of this whole run in with the KDI [Krugman Defense Industry], I no longer have a place in the mainstream discourse. I write my blog, get fairly big numbers, write what most people would consider thoughtful, intelligent posts--but I'm not considered "serious". And therefore, none of my ideas or posts are discussed at levels where they might actually make a difference.

This gatekeeping by the KDI and other such cliques--mind you, on both the Left and the Right--keeps strong ideas from reaching the people with power: Ideas which might potentially help our society. And thus our society is poorer for it, because it cannot draw upon the best ideas in order to form a solution to a problem besetting us all: Only the ideas these cliques on both the Left and the Right allow to reach the table are considered--while everything else is automatically regarded as "fringe".